enabled through grace to put his resolution into practice: he arises, brings forth fruit meet for repentance, ceasing to do evil and learning to do well. "The vows that" he "made, or that was made in" his "name at" his "baptism," he ratifies and confirms, "acknowledging" himself "bound to believe and to do all those things which" he "then undertook, or" his "sponsors undertook for" him.
The soul has now so far changed its position, that whereas sin, in which it formerly took so much delight, now appears in all its native odiousness, as something to be loathed and shunned. He perceives also a beauty in the holiness of God which he never saw before, and his anxious desire is to be conformed in his measure, more and more to the same image. Hence he draws nigh to God.
2. In the exercise of faith. Under the dispensation of the Gospel, God has appointed repentance and a lively faith
