De paenitentia
On Repentance
Bibliographic Reference
The Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325 ANTE-NICENE FATHERS: VOLUME 3. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian I. Apologetic; II. Anti-Marcion; III. Ethical Edited by Alexander Roberts, D.D. & James Donaldson, D.D. Revised and chronologically arranged, with brief prefaces and occasional notes by A. Cleveland Coxe, D.D. originally published in the United States by the Christian Literature Publishing Company, 1885 Second printing -- June 1995 (Translation, English)
Identifier
CPL 10
Date
3rd century
Text
Contents
- On Repentance.
- Chapter I.--Of Heathen Repentance.
- Chapter II.--True Repentance a Thing Divine, Originated by God, and Subject to His Laws.
- Chapter III.--Sins May Be Divided into Corporeal and Spiritual. Both Equally Subject, If Not to Human, Yet to Divine Investigation and Punishment.
- Chapter IV.--Repentance Applicable to All the Kinds of Sin. To Be Practised Not Only, Nor Chiefly, for the Good It Brings, But Because God Commands It.
- Chapter V.--Sin Never to Be Returned to After Repentance.
- Chapter VI.--Baptism Not to Be Presumptously Received. It Requires Preceding Repentance, Manifested by Amendment of Life.
- Chapter VII.--Of Repentance, in the Case of Such as Have Lapsed After Baptism.
- Chapter VIII.--Examples from Scripture to Prove the Lord's Willingness to Pardon.
- Chapter IX.--Concerning the Outward Manifestations by Which This Second Repentance is to Be Accompanied.
- Chapter X.--Of Men's Shrinking from This Second Repentance and Exomologesis, and of the Unreasonableness of Such Shrinking.
- Chapter XI.--Further Strictures on the Same Subject.
- Chapter XII.--Final Considerations to Induce to Exomologesis.