A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

6. Consider, There is no other Righteousness to be found, but only that of Christ, that can or will satisfy the demands of Justice for you. This truth hath been sufficiently evidenced in the opening of the Doctrine; only be here persuaded to meditate and ponder seriously upon it: There will be no appearing then under a covering of your own making, it will be too short, and too narrow, and too dirty to stand you in any stead: If you should wash your selves with Nitre, and take much Soap, and be at a great deal of pains, yet all will not cleanse you from your spots, or ri••se off those blemishes which you have cleaving unto you, which are like the Leopards Spots, and Ethiopians blackness: there ⟨p. 128⟩is no man […] can make his heart clean; and if our own personal Righteousness be too short to do this for us, it is certain that there is no relative Righteousness to be heard of, which will suffice, but only that of Christ: there is none else which hath such an intrinsical worth in it, as to be able so to merit for us; for that which so doth, must be an everlasting Righteousness: & if there were any other such, as in truth there is not, yet there is none other which God hath declared his acceptance of, without which, we criminals can never plead Justice for our acquittance and deliverance from condemnation upon another score: this therefore, and none but this will be of any worth to us, when we come to make our plea for our lives: and therefore it is of most momentous concern that we use utmost endeavours to get entitled unto this. For,

6. Consider, There is no other Righteousness to be found, but only that of Christ, that can or will satisfie the demands of Justice for you. This truth hath been sufficiently evidenced in the opening of the Doctrine; only be here perswaded to meditate and ponder seriously upon it: There will be no appearing then under a covering of your own making, it will be too short, and too narrow, and too dirty to stand you in any stead: If you should wash your selves with Nitre, and take much Sope, and be at a great deal of pains, yet all will not cleanse you from your spots, or ri••se off those blemishes which you have cleaving unto you, which are like the Leopards Spots, and Ethiopians blackness: there ⟨p. 128⟩