Wretched, poor, and naked

One of these can no longer say, I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing (Revelation 3:17), knowing now that he is wretched, and poor, and miserable, and blind, and naked. He is convinced that he is spiritually poor indeed, having no spiritual good remaining in him. In me, he says, dwells no good thing (Romans 7:18), but whatever is evil and abominable. He has a deep sense of the loathsome leprosy of sin, which he brought with him from his mother's womb, which overspreads his whole soul, and totally corrupts every power and faculty of it. He sees more and more of the evil tempers which spring from that evil root: the pride and haughtiness of spirit, the constant leaning toward thinking of himself more highly than he ought to think, the vanity, the thirst after the esteem or honor that comes from men, the hatred or envy, the jealousy or revenge, the anger, malice, or bitterness, the inbred enmity against both God and man, which appears in ten thousand shapes, the love of the world, the self-will, the foolish and hurtful desires, which cling to his inmost soul. He is conscious how deeply he has offended by his tongue, if not by profane, immodest, untrue, or unkind words, yet by talk which was not good for building others up, not fit to minister grace to the hearers, which therefore was all corrupt in God's account, and grievous to his Holy Spirit. His evil works are now also always in his sight. If he tried to tell them, they are more than he is able to express. He might as well think to number the drops of rain, the sands of the sea, or the days of eternity.