Verse 3. Under the influence of which association, thus under the influence of truth from good, the man of the corrupted church perceives, through his rational powers, that the doctrine of the good of life, or of obedience to the Lord in the beginning of regeneration, which properly belongs to the church, is vitiated by being in the power of the merely natural man, and that therefore a false peace should end, that those who are in simple good may be elevated.