# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1861_S193
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Lehre und Wehre.

Volume VII.    July 1861.    No. 7.

Theological Axioms.

(Continued.)
XV. On Repentance.

1. "Constat poenitentia proprie his duabus partibus: altera est contritio
seu terrores incussi conscientiae agnito peccato; altera est fides, quae
concipitur ex evangelio seu absolutione, et credit, propter Christum remitti
peccata, et consolatur conscientiam et ex terroribus liberat." (Aug.
Conf.*)

"True, right repentance is properly to have contrition and sorrow, or terror,
over sin, and yet at the same time to believe the gospel and absolution, that
sin is forgiven and grace obtained through Christ; which faith in turn
comforts the heart and makes it content."

2. "Contrition, the scholastic theologians have invented, is a
self-provoked and self-assumed thought, arising from the power of free will,
which hates sin as often as it will or will not; whereas this contrition is a
suffering or torment which the conscience, willing or unwilling, must endure
when it is rightly struck and pressed by the law." (Luther.)

3. Contritio lapsorum in se spectata, priusquam fides accedat, non est
bonum opus. (Kromayer.)

The contrition of the fallen is in itself, before faith is added to it, no good
work.

4. "Quando territa conscientia, praesertim in seriis, veris et illis
magnis terroribus, qui describuntur in psalmis ac prophetis et quos certe
degustant isti, qui vere convertuntur, judicare poterit, utrum Deum propter
se timeat, an fugiat aeternas poenas? Hi magni motus literis et vocabulis
discerni possunt, re ipsa non ita divelluntur, ut suaves sophistae somniant."
(Apologia.)

"When will a terrified conscience — especially in those earnest, true and
great terrors which are described in the Psalms and the Prophets, and which
those who are truly converted certainly taste — be able to know whether it
fears God out of love as its God, or whether it is fleeing and hating his wrath
and

*) From now on we shall name all the sources known to us from which the theological
rules here collected are taken; the citation of sources for those already given
we shall supply later, in a subsequent number.