Chr. 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
conviction about it.
Chr. And did you ask him what man this was, and how you must be
justified 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 justified by him, even by trusting to 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 efficacy to justify 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 imputed, if I believed on him.
Chr. 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.
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