1.
Conversion is the turning of the heart and will to God
through grace.[i]
2.
Repentance is the judgment we form, under the effect of
God's testimony, of all in ourselves to which that testimony applies. Hence it
is always founded on faith: I do not say the faith of the gospel. That may be
its source; but we may repent through the testimony of God to the soul, and
afterwards receive those glad tidings. Conversion itself may follow repentance;
that is, conversion as the full deliberate turning of the heart to God.
"Repent," says Peter, "and be converted." (Acts 3: 19.)
Conversion is the turning of the will to God. Repentance
(μετ_νοια) is the changed thought, or
judgment, we have of things, bringing in with it often, when it concerns self,
the sense of a change of feeling.[ii]