Repentance is also a turning to the good (Thomas Brooks)

[Reformed Covenanter]

[R]epentance is not only a turning from all sin, but also a turning to all good; to a love of all good, to a prizing of all good, and to a following after all good … It is not enough that the tree bears not ill fruit; but it must bring forth good fruit, else it must be 'cut down and cast into the fire,' Luke xiii. 7.

Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices (1676) in The Works of Thomas Brooks, ed. Alexander B. Grossart (6 vols, Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1861-67), 1: 33.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

Given that Brooks made this statement in his classic work, Precious Remedies Against CNN's Devices, the network ought not merely to stop reporting #FakeNews but start publishing real news.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

Another quote on the same theme:

Repentance is the vomit of the soul; and of all physic, none so difficult and hard as it is to vomit.

Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices (1676) in The Works of Thomas Brooks, ed. Alexander B. Grossart (6 vols, Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1861-67), 1: 36.