Chr. A very good application: but pray go on.
Hope. Another thing that hath troubled me, even ſince my late amendments, is, that if I look narrowly into the beſt of what I do now, I ſtill ſee ſin, new ſin, mixing it ſelf with the beſt of that I do. So that now I am forced to conclude, that notwithſtanding my former fond conceits of my ſelf and duties, I have committed ſin enough in one duty to ſend me to Hell, though my former life had been faultleſs.
Chr. And what did you do then?
Hopef. Do! I could not tell what to do, till I brake my mind to Faithful; for he and I were well acquainted: And he told me, That unleſs I could obtain the righteouſneſs of a man that never had ſinned, neither mine own, nor all the righteouſneſs of the World could ſave me.
Chr. And did you think he ſpake true?
Hopef. Had he told me ſo when I was pleaſed and ſatiſfied with mine own amendments, I had called him Fool for his pains: but now, ſince I fee my own infirmity, and
