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In resipiscentia generali acquiescendum non est, verum ad id contendere tenetur quisque, ut singulorum suorum peccatorum quam particularem agat poenitentiam.
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In resipiscentia generali acquiescendum non est, verum ad id contendere tenetur quisque, ut singulorum suorum peccatorum quam particularem agat poenitentiam.
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The first, which is metame'leia, denotes an anxiety or displeasure of mind upon something done amiss, to which answers the Latin poenitentia; the second, which is meta'noia, signifies a total change or transmutation of the mind, to which answers resipiscentia.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823
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* sua, qua corpus Domini valeant discernere, tum de fide sua, qua vescantur ipso, tum etiam de resipiscentia sua, amore ac obedientia nova; ne forte indigni si advenerint, judicium edant bibantque sibimetipsis.
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