The First Step to Conversion

beautiful garment of the innocence of Christ (which he has stained) is standing before the face of God as a filthy / torn and scabby Swine-herd / who has constantly eaten the dregs of vanity with the swine of the devil / and is not worthy / that he be named a Son of the Father and a member of Christ.

4 Fourthly / he shall earnestly contemplate / how the grim or severe death is waiting for him at every hour and moment / and wants to seize him (with this Swine-herd's garment / in his sins and abominations) / and cast him into the abyss of hell / as a perjurer / and breaker of the faith / who shall be kept for the judgment of God / in the dark chamber of death.

5 Fifthly / he shall contemplate the earnest and severe judgment of God / where he will be placed living / with his abominations / before the judgment. And all those / whom he has burdened here with words and deeds / and has caused to do evil (that they through his in-