The Renewal of the Evangelical Spirit

[...God] has given us, which is merely covered and clothed in the sack of this corruption born of sin. For this reason, one must believe unfailingly in the Resurrection of the flesh, but not in the resurrection of our corruption; for the righteous person will be overjoyed to have cast it off and to be delivered from it, without believing or wishing to ever take it up again. Instead, they may well curse the hour we were s Job 3:1 etc. original: "Job. 3. v. 1. &c." clothed in it, along with Job, s who wisely cursed the day of his birth in such a miserable state, into which sin had caused him to be born: even though the ignorant attribute his great wisdom and light to some form of despair, because they t 1 Corinthians 2:14. original: "1 Cor. 2. v. 14." are ignorant t of the meaning of the Scriptures. Each person twists them according to their own whim, and measures the works of God by the yardstick of their own little brains corrupted by sin.

XIV. The Corruption of the Spirit surpasses that of the body. From this comes the many conflicting opinions on the Holy Scriptures that exist today, and the many sects and divisions seen within Christendom Referring to the collective body of Christian believers or the Christian world at large., because everyone wants to interpret the meaning of Scripture in their own u 2 Peter 1:20 and chapter 3:16. original: "2 Pier. 1. v. 20. & ch. 3. v. 16." way, u drawing from it the things that most favor their own laxity The original French "relachement" implies a loosening of moral or spiritual discipline.. In this way, everyone deceives themselves, embracing error as truth—a truth which no one will put into practice except the one who effectively renounces their own will. For what right judgment could a spirit corrupted by sin make, as are the spirits of all men descended from ADAM since his sin? These Spirits