A guide to the godly, or, The dayly meditations of Returne Hebdon Gentleman who for his conscience (through the tyrany of the Bishops) suffered many years imprisonment in the Kings-Bench and their remained till death : being very useful for instruction of all those that desire to walke in the paths of Jesus Christ.

The sixth day of the week (Book 6)

J Understand by that in Rom. 3.5. to 8, How God in judging the world, bringeth wrath up∣on man for their sinnes. If man doth repent, and turne to God; tho unrighteousnesse and the lye, according to which he walked before his conversion, doth now commend the righteous∣nesse and truth of God; thu••, in that he which was unrighteous, is not now to be judged accor∣ding to what he was; namely, a sinner, but the righteousnesse of God is to bee commended in him; because that he which was a sinner, is now righteous, and will doe no evill, no not though good may come of it: and the lye of him which was once deceived, maketh the truth of God a∣bound to his glory, thus in that he which was a lyar, doth now walke in the truth, and convin∣ceth the world of Gune.