Verse 5. And you shall confess before the Lord your God and acknowledge that the beginning of your regenerate life was but a few knowledges of good and truth ready to perish, and these degenerated to mere scientifics, amongst which few truths were left—that is to say, all religion consisted in a mere system of dogmas not understood, —and that you were in that state instructed in genuine truths grounded in good, full of power to gift the soul with true charity, and mighty against falsities and immensely increased: