The Renewal of the Evangelical Spirit

...lt gives original: "donne"; completes the phrase "une secousse leur donne" (gives them a jolt) from the previous page., and I can say with truth that I have not yet found a person who did well; since all men m have corrupted their ways, walking with fervor and violence according to the movements of their Corrupted Nature original: "Nature Corrompue"; a central theme in this work, referring to the theological concept of total depravity following the Fall of Man., out of which n no good can ever emerge, any more than a good liquid original: "bonne liqueur"; refers to healthy bodily fluids or humors in a medical sense. can emerge from the leprosy or the rotting wound of a human body: everything there is stinking and venomous. Thus, everything that issues from the movement of the Corrupted Nature is likewise corruptible and damaging to the salvation of the soul. And I have often remarked in persons of good will that after having noticed their faults, and wanting to correct them, they fell into even greater ones: so that their final faults were worse than the first. This cannot fail to happen, since the corruption of man increases as he commits faults and sins: and when he believes he is amending his faults and doing well through the movements of his Corrupted Nature, he falls into presumption of spirit, attributing to his corruption the power to do well, although it has no power except to do evil: which is an impotence original: "impuissance"; here meaning a total lack of spiritual capacity or moral strength..

In such a way that man strives and labors in vain to correct his life, or to embrace an Evangelical life original: "vie Evangelique"; a life modeled strictly on the teachings of the Gospels.. He will never arrive there unless, beforehand, he has entirely renounced the corruption of his Nature and has submitted himself entirely to the will and the governance of God, p who will then perform in him every kind of good by