I judge repentance to be a much deeper thing than is thought. It is the judgment of the new man in divine light and grace on all that he who repents has been or done in flesh. Law may be the means of bringing the soul to it; but, though salutary, it is made for the unrighteous. The full knowledge of Christ gives a far deeper hatred of sin. And such is the holy ghost's way: all else, if true, is imperfect. “He shall convince the world of sin, because they believe not in me.” To have hated good, seen no beauty in Christ to desire him—a nature which could do this is worse even than the lusts which the spirituality of the law so justly condemns. Lawless, law-breaking, and god-hating: such is the flesh's character in scripture and the order of its manifestation for showing what sin is. Hence repentance will, in one sense, deepen all one's life as the knowledge of God grows. It is not a quantum of sorrow, nor even a perception of separation from God by sin. That leads to it. It is the soul of man judging divinely of sin, and that in the consciousness it had been self when God is known in grace—at any rate, in some measure.