HOPE. Another thing that hath troubled me ever since my late turning from sin is, that if I look narrowly into the best of what I do now, I still see sin, new sin, mixing itself with the best of that I do; so that now I am forced to conclude that, notwithstanding my former fond opinion of myself and duties, I have committed sin enough in one duty to send me to hell, though my former life had been faultless. CHRIS. And what did you do then? HOPE. 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. CHRIS. And did you think he spake true? HOPE. Had he told me so when I was pleased and satisfied with mine own trying, I had called him fool for his pains; but now, since I see mine own weakness and the sin which cleaves to my best performance, I have been forced to be of his opinion. CHRIS. But did you think, when at first he suggested it to you, that there was such a Man to be found, of whom it might justly be said that He never committed sin? HOPE. I must confess the words at first sounded strangely; but after a little more talk and company with him I had full certainty about it. CHRIS. And did you ask him what Man this was, and how you must be made righteous by Him? HOPE. Yes, and he told me it was the Lord Jesus, that dwelleth on the right hand of the Most High. And thus, said he, you must be made right by Him, even by trusting what He hath done by Himself in the days of His flesh, and suffered when He did hang on the tree. I asked him further, How that Man's righteousness could be of that power to help another before God? And he told me He was the mighty God, and did what He did, and died the death also, not for Himself, but for me; to whom His doings, and the worthiness of them, should be given if I believed on Him. CHRIS. And what did you do then? HOPE. I made my objections against my believing, for that I thought He was not willing to save me. CHRIS. And what said Faithful to you then?