The First Step to Conversion

lies/ is the corrupt and entirely vain earthly/ mortal flesh and blood/ full of evil desires and inclinations. Here he shall contemplate/ how he lies very tightly captured with body and soul in the dirt of sins (in the wrath of God/ in the jaws of the abyss of hell): how the wrath of God (in him) burns in body and soul: and how he is the stinking Swine-herd / who has squandered and consumed his Father's inheritance (with the devil's fattened pigs) in earthly voluptuousness (as the Love and the mercy of God:) and has not observed the high-worthy Covenant and the reconciliation of the innocent suffering and death of Jesus Christ, which God/ out of pure grace/ has placed into our humanity/ and has reconciled us in Him: also how he has so entirely forgotten the covenant of the holy Baptism (in which he has promised his planted faith and loyalty) / and has so entirely defiled and darkened his righteousness/ which God grants him in Christ out of grace: that he now with the