On Repentance.

 Chapter I.—Of Heathen Repentance.

 Chapter II.—True Repentance a Thing Divine, Originated by God, and Subject to His Laws.

 What things, then, they be for which repentance seems just and due—that is, what things are to be set down under the head of sin —the occasion indeed

 Chapter IV.—Repentance Applicable to All the Kinds of Sin. To Be Practised Not Only, Nor Chiefly, for the Good It Brings, But Because God Commands It.

 For what I say is this, that the repentance which, being shown us and commanded us through God’s grace, recalls us to grace with the Lord, when once l

 Chapter VI.—Baptism Not to Be Presumptously Received. It Requires Preceding Repentance, Manifested by Amendment of Life.

 Chapter VII.—Of Repentance, in the Case of Such as Have Lapsed After Baptism.

 Chapter VIII.—Examples from Scripture to Prove the Lord’s Willingness to Pardon.

 Chapter IX.—Concerning the Outward Manifestations by Which This Second Repentance is to Be Accompanied.

 Chapter X.—Of Men’s Shrinking from This Second Repentance and Exomologesis, and of the Unreasonableness of Such Shrinking.

 Chapter XI.—Further Strictures on the Same Subject.

 Chapter XII.—Final Considerations to Induce to Exomologesis.

On Repentance.

QUINTI SEPTIMII FLORENTIS TERTULLIANI DE POENITENTIA LIBER.