Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 15:21

21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

Now the good thoughts, and Resolutions of the Sinner ripen into Action, and the first of it is an Expression of his Convictions, and Humiliation by an humble Confession of his Sins, with their Aggravations, as committed against God, and that in the sight of God, and this God, his Father, his unworthiness so much as of the Name of a Son to such a Father. The Petitionary part of what he resolved upon, v. 19. is not here again repeated, but to be understood. Men may by the common Grace of God denyed to no Man, have some good thoughts, but they dye away, [illegible: 2 letters]d [illegible: 1 word] to no Maturity, unless the Holy Spirit of God breath[illegible: 1 letter] upon them, and [illegible: 1 word], and upholdeth them in the Soul, but where the Lord designeth a thorough Change in a Soul, the Spirit of the Lord comes, and convinceth the Soul of Sin, and of Righteousness, and where he doth so▪ the Resolution ripeneth into Action, and produceth in the Soul a true and hearty Contrition, and confession of its sin, with humble Petitions and a Resignation of its self to the Lords Will, and a casting of its self upon God's free Grace and Mercy.