All Lord’s Days

True Conversion

Questions 88–91

How many parts make up true human conversion?

Two parts: putting to death the old self and bringing the new self to life.

What is the putting to death of the old self?

Heartfelt sorrow that we have provoked God by our sins, and increasingly hating and fleeing from them.

What is the coming to life of the new self?

Heartfelt joy in God through Christ, and a love and delight in living according to God’s will in every good work.

But what are good works?

Only those which proceed from a true faith, are performed according to the law of God, and to His glory, and not such as are founded on our imaginations or the institutions of men.

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