REPENTANCE, C.H. Cayce There is a legal repentance required of every violator of law. If one is guilty of the violation of law—let it be God’s moral law, or any other righteous law—it is his duty to repent; it is his duty to turn from such violation or wrong doing, and live in obedience to the law. Then there is a gospel repentance required if gospel subjects. (Cayce’s Editorials vol. 3, ppg 184, 185)
C. H. Cayce Gospel repentance is required of gospel subjects. God’s people under the law often went away from the service which He required under the law. When they did so, they were required to repent. Hence “they repented at the preaching of Jonas.” Those upon whom the tower in Siloam fell did not repent, hence they were destroyed— they perished. Under the law God’s people enjoyed temporal blessings in obeying the law. They disobeyed the law and suffered temporal punishment.
Under the gospel God’s people are commanded to repent, or turn away from false worship or false service. They imbibe false notions and engage in wrong practices often. They are commanded to turn away from all such, and to render the service which God requires in the gospel.
The foregoing is our opinion expressed in few words, as to the repentance required in the gospel. There is also another way in which we may speak of repentance, thus: if a man (or woman) [pg 97] is guilty of immoral practice, such as drunkenness, cursing, swearing, card playing, or other such practices, he should repent— turn away from such practice and live a moral and sober, honest and upright life. Every man can do this, and the moral law requires it. The Primitive Baptist
March 26, 1912.