The First Step to Conversion

You God-loving Reader, if you will truly express this book, and if you read it at first, you will see how attentively it is written. But I want to let you know, that if it is not opened to you, then leave this book with? God and? in which the superficialities? that may lurk, and powerfully the world is ...ed? must before? you the Lord God to? fall stand?. When treading? in? God's fear began? to? become? in everything for those who have? from? their own doing/ and in standing above, they will experience the receding? words/ what before the virtues? and/ and that they are and? Herewith the eternal good? merciful God be commended.

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