The Renewal of the Evangelical Spirit

...ruption of Human Nature. original: "Nature humaine"; completes the word from the previous page. But this is as necessary as bread is to nourish the body: since the person d ignores their corruption, and they e cannot be a Christian before having overcome and conquered this old corruption into which f men fell in Adam. And therefore no descendants of his posterity can return to life in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, without having first killed this old man original: "vieil homme"; a biblical term from St. Paul referring to the unregenerate, sinful self., who has covered g all the bodies of men with this universal leprosy, which has not left the smallest hair or the smallest part of all his limbs healthy without being covered internally and externally with this mortal leprosy. And the greatest evil of all is, that men do not know this disease of theirs. They believe themselves healthy and well-disposed at the height of the attack of this mortal disease: h since this Lethargy original: "Letargie"; here meaning a spiritual stupor or numbness that prevents a person from feeling the weight of their sins. is often imperceptible to them, making them sleep the sleep of death: This is why a rough jolt is needed to wake them from such a heavy sleep, without which all men perish eternally.

For I still know no one i on earth who truly knows their own corruption. Everyone thinks themselves wise in themselves, and to do well, even when they spoil everything, so much does their own heart deceive and abuse them. It is of our time that God has said by his Prophet:

l God has looked throughout the earth and has not seen one who does well, repeating, not even one.

I have also had the same view according to the light that God gives me,