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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Of Saving Repentance.
Quest. 87. What is Repentance unto Life?
Quest. 87. WHat is Repentance unto Life?
A. Repentance unto Life is a saving Grace, whereby a Sinner out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the Mercy of God in Christ doth with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God with full purpose of, and endeavour after new obedience.
Q. 1. Who is the Author of saving Repentance?
A. The Spirit of God is the Author of it; the Heart by Nature is so hard, that none but the Spirit can break it, Ezek. 36.26, 27. A new heart also will I give, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, &c.