The First Step to Conversion

death of Christ. But with those I wish to speak / who indeed feel a desire for repentance in themselves / yet cannot arrive anywhere at confession and sorrow (over their committed sins): where the flesh continually speaks to the soul: persist still; tomorrow is good for converting / and so when the morning comes / the flesh speaks again / tomorrow: where the poor soul gasps / and stands in inability / and receives neither true repentance over the committed sins / nor any consolation: to such a person I say / I wish to write a Process or prescribe a path / which I myself have walked / so that he may know what he has to do / and how it went with me / if anyone were inclined to follow me / then he shall find what is written hereafter:

Process of Repentance. Or the path to Conversion.

So when man finds in himself / a hunger and thirst for such above-mentioned con-