Preface.

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[in] whom God had a special pleasure / so that because of his transgression he would not be damned / He has through his Son created the new birth / in which man comes again into Paradise / and what Adam lost / he may conquer again through Christ / if he does the will of God / and is obedient. For God's will shall be done / not ours / but whoever does the will of the flesh / he cannot do so without harm to the soul / but rather it happens to him as it did to Lucifer in Heaven / and to Adam in Paradise. Here it should be noted, however / that since the flesh descended from Adam cannot come to God / because it is subject to the creaturely state / and to death / and must become again that which it was before / as the Scripture original: "Geschrifft" testifies:

You are dust / and to dust you shall return.
And also Paul says:
That flesh and blood shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
And yet the holy Job says / that he shall see God his Redeemer in his flesh / So it follows indeed that another flesh will be given to man in the resurrection. For man must come to Heaven not as a spirit / but as a man in flesh and blood / so that he may have a distinction from the angels. Thus, it must not be the flesh / that the worms eat / but another / namely the flesh of the new birth New birth: In Paracelsian theology, this refers to a spiritual-physical regeneration where a person receives a "glorified" or "sidereal" body that can enter heaven, as opposed to the mortal, elemental body. that must be there / which the Lord Christ will give us / so that we become flesh of his flesh / and bone of his bone. And Christ confirms this himself in John in the third [chapter] / where he says:
Unless someone is born anew / he cannot see the Kingdom of God.
And if we held fast to this new birth / we would be capable of all things / through the Spirit of Christ. But we do that