Law no man ſhall be juſtified. When you have done all things, ſay, We are unprofitable:Luk. 17. 10 with many more the like. From whence I began to reaſon with my ſelf thus: If all my righteouſneſſes are filthy rags, if by the deeds of the Law, no man can be juſtified; And if, when we have done all, we are yet unprofitable: Then tis but a folly to think of Heaven by the Law. I further thought thus: If a Man runs an 100l. into the Shop-keepers debt, and after that mall pay for all that he ſhall fetch, yet his old debt ſtands ſtill in the Book uncroſſed; for the which the Shop-keeper may ſue him, and caſt him into Priſon till he ſhall pay the debt.
Chr. Well, and how did you apply this to your ſelf?
Hopef. Why, I thought thus with my ſelf; I have by my ſins run a great way into Gods Book, and that my now reforming will not pay off that ſcore; therefore I ſhould think ſtill under all my preſent amendments, But how ſhall I be freed from that damnation that I have brought my ſelf in danger of by my former tranſgreſſions?
