date

24 July 1815 Jug. True History
24 July 1815

Jug. True History

History of Jesus

Conversations

Repentance

(1)

Conversations on the subject of Repentance

Repentance—Great appears to have been the importance attached by Jesus to this topic: many the discourses in which the performance of this operation is pressed upon his hearers.

Of this inquiry two intimately connected causes seem assignable: 1. the contributing to impregnate their minds with terror, and thereby engage them to fly into his arms and look to his person for protection and support. Repent ye only for the kingdom of heaven, i.e. that kingdom in which it is by me that the office of King is to be filled and exercised.

2. The giving a value to the power assumed by him of forgiving sins.

Of these sins at the hands of a professed reformer of a prophet or a God sent from heaven to reform the world would not a catalogue have naturally been expected? Yes: if such had been his object or of the number of his objects viz. to lay down to mankind in general for the conduct of life such a body of directions as should be adapted to all times and all places and serve alike not only for the age in which he lived and died and for all future ones.

Of the enterprize such as that in which he was engaged, was of such a MS alt. ‘was the nature’. nature that a man could not embark in it without turning his back upon all his former prospects and habits, and in this sense becoming as it were a new man. To engage man in this substitution of new to old, was the object towards these discourses tended in which instance[?] was inferred: The enterprize being of a sort in which success was understood to depend in a more than ordinary degree on the special favour of God, and God being a hater of all sins, sins in every shape being displeasing to God, human sorrow for all past sins and a determination not to engage in new ones, were among the conditions [...?] [...?] [....?] to success. To fulfill this condition, the knowledge of the several shapes in which in this instance at least sin had manifested itself was obviously in some sort necessary: but for this branch of knowledge as for others a man would on this as on other occasions look to act [...?] as in his view [...?] [...?] [....?] with mankind.

[marginal note unplaced as yet] looking to others altogether different.
Similar Items
  • Title: [29 Sept. 1815 Jug. True Ch]
    Description: 29 Sept. 1815

    Jug. True

    Ch. 124 Ascension

    Time per Luke immediately after his appearance to the eleven at Jerusalem, where & when he eat with them. Per Mark, the same time though not so pointedly

    Place per Luke Bethany whither he led them from Jerusalem. This contradicts Matthew according to whom he met them in the mountain in Galilee according to his appointment: which appointment if made be according to Luke & Mark broken

    As to Matthew & John they had never heard of this occasion though Matthew was one of the eleven in whose presence according to Luke it was performed, or they did not believe it, or they thought it not worth mentioning

    {Sit on the right hand of God} Who saw him? /thus sitting?/ Did he sit on the right hand of himself?

    {Confirming the word with signs following} Then come the Acts as a sequel. This being in Mark, this makes the Acts to be of Mark’s writing

    {Returned to Jerusalem with great joy} Joy for what? at seeing themselves in a destitute state instead of sharers in the Kingdom of Judæa[?]?

    Luke {All things must be fulfilled in the prophets & psalms concerning me} What sort of fulfillable things these are have been seen ‘ Opened their understanding’ about the scriptures. See above.

    Repentance and remission of sins. This power of remission of sins was the legacy to them for their maintenance: this was all they had to give joy for.

    Ch. 124

    Jesus ascends into heaven and sits at the right hand of God.

    Luke XXIV. 44 to 53 (the end) Matt. silent. Mark XVI. 19. 20 (the end). John silent.
  • Title: [22 Sept. 1815 Jug. True Ch]
    Description: 22 Sept. 1815

    Jug. True

    Ch. 100 Tribute lawful

    No marriage in heaven

    Time and place not particularized in any of the three: of course still at Jerusalem and in the short interval of a few days between his arrival there and the passover

    {Herodians} who were there?

    It appears that he was still in such a condition that though he was not able to begin his enterprize, the ruling powers were afraid to have him arrested in the presence of the multitude

    An odd sort of logic that because every piece of money had Cæsar’s mark upon it therefore it belonged to him. Gainsayers were at this rate early silenced

    Logic – When Abraham was alive God was called his God: ergo he is now alive: In the same way may every man whose name is in history be proved to be still alive.

    Luke XX. 35. Strange passage in disparagement of marriage. In Luke alone: perhaps a comparatively modern interpolation on behalf of celibacy.

    Ch. 100

    Question is it lawful to bring tribute to Cæsar? Answer. Yes, because all the money bears Cæsar’s mark.

    Question – Of seven successive husbands that a woman had, which will be her husband in heaven? Answer – In heaven there is no marriage.

    Luke XX. 20 to 40. Matt XXII 13 to 33. Mark XII. 13 to 27. John silent.
  • Title: [2 Sept 1811 Jug Util B.II Under]
    Description: 2 Sept 1811

    Jug Util

    B.II Under Revelation

    Ch.5. Mischief Weakning Natural

    8

     Quaere whether to observe in the inconsistencies of this reasoning?

    (7) A child was to be pitched upon, a child within that age of innocence /before/ till the expiration of which the /inbred/ capacity of sinning has not /never/ yet ripened into act. This innocent was to be murdered. The soul of the nascent victim /[...?] of [...?]/ rise to heaven: the /slaughterer/ murderer, /found his way/ fell in due course of law into the hands of the executioner. Two birds were thus according to the familiar proverb, killed with one stone. The murderer, taking the primitive martyrs for his patterns, mounted the scaffold and made a glorious end. (8) Physical suffering and /psychological/ mental together, a quantity of pain and then of merit was accumulated to the virtue of which there was no bounds. Sufficient to atone not only for the chosen and voluntary /instrumentary/ sin by which the /injuring sinner/ murderer had been brought /conducted/ to the scaffold, but for all other /the/ sins of his former life /the former part of his life/ /anterior/. (9) In this rich compost of meritorious suffering, the grand /ingredient/ article was the repentance, the pain of the repentance: his business therefore and consequently his case was to inject /condense/ into the interval between conviction and execution or into whatever quantity of time, suppose the interval between conviction and execution, as large a portion of this pretious good as the whole force /strength/ of his mind could contrive to force into it.

    17

    7. Display on the scaffold repentance, contrition in all its glory.

    8. Thus your accumulated merit sufficient to atone not merely for the instrumental sin, but for all prior ones.

    9. Of the suffering the repentance being the only meritorious part, inject of that as much as possible.