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Is a saving grace.","proofs":["Acts 11:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"46","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/46","segments":[{"text":"No. But with purpose of Heart must cleave to the Lord,","proofs":["Acts 11:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"85","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/85","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He shall tell thee Words whereby thou may’st be sav’d,","proofs":["Acts 11:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"87","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/87","segments":[{"text":"Yes. God hath to the Gentiles granted Repentance unto Life,","proofs":["Acts 11:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"89","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/89","segments":[{"text":"Yes. When the Hand of the Lord was with them, a great Number believed, and turn’d to the Lord,","proofs":["Acts 11:21"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"91","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/91","segments":[{"text":"Thus Barnabas is said to be full of the Holy Ghost and of faith,","proofs":["Acts 11:24"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"91","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/91","segments":[{"text":"And exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart, they would cleave unto the Lord,","proofs":["Acts 11:23"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"92","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/92","segments":[{"text":"God hath unto the Gentiles granted repentance unto life,","proofs":["Acts 11:18"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["Acts 11:18"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"(2) Because, Repentance is numbered among the saving graces, which shall be bestowed and conferred upon Converts, under the Gospel, and is sometimes put for the whole Conversion of a man to GOD;","proofs":["Acts 11:15–18"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"(3) Because, Repentance, is a sorrow after a Godly manner, in the same very Persons, that Repent, wrought by God, by the preaching of the Word;","proofs":["Acts 11:18"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"(3) Because, true Repentance, is the infallible Antecedent, and forerunner of life;","proofs":["Acts 11:18"]},{"text":"Nay, Repentance is a peice of the exercise of the life of Grace here, and worketh unto life, and salvation hereafter. 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