The Renewal of the Evangelical Spirit

g Ecclesiastes 12:1

...never by its own will: since the natural man original: "l'homme naturel"; in 17th-century theology, this refers to a person living according to human instincts without divine grace. values nothing so much, and holds nothing more dear, than following his natural inclinations and his own will—things he cannot resist until he has discovered that they lead him to perdition. For Corrupted Nature original: "Nature Corrompue" has in itself this property: that it

a Jeremiah 6:16

ᵃ prefers to do evil by following its own will, than to do good by following the will of God. So in love with itself is it,

a Genesis 3:12, 13

that it studies more ᵃ to excuse its own faults than it studies to correct them, due to the penchant and inclination it has to follow its own impulses. So much so, that if it thought it could be saved while following its own will, it would gladly despise the counsels of Jesus Christ to follow its own counsels, and would never wish to think of self-denial. But since that

b John 3:5

cannot be done, and ᵇ since none shall enter into Paradise except regenerated persons original: "perſonnes regenerées"; those who have undergone a spiritual rebirth. who have contradicted their own corruption, it is very easy to conclude from this that all persons who follow the impulses of their corrupted natures will

c Ephesians 2:3

be damned; for having been ᶜ born into damnation, and having lived and died within it, they shall for all eternity be deprived of God—the source of all good—and confined within their own corruption, the source of all evils.

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VI. Efforts necessary to effect the

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Perhaps some will wonder why, in wanting to treat the RENEWAL OF THE GOSPEL SPIRIT original: "RENOUVELLEMENT DE L’ESPRIT EVANGELIQUE"; refers to a return to the primitive, rigorous devotion of the early Church., I expand at such length upon the cor-