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One other ordinarie hackney of theirs, is that out of the Prophet. All our righteousnesse is as a menstruous or defiled cloath.* 1.1 The which I haue alreadie rid to death in the beginning of the question of iustification, where it was alledged: The answer is briefly, that the Prophet praying for the sinnes of the people, speaketh in the person of
the sinfull; such as the common sort of them were, who had more sinnes then good workes, and so their righteousnesse was like vnto a spotted and stayned cloath. Now this disprooueth not, but that their good workes although but few, yet were free from all spots of iniquitie: it onely proo∣ueth, that with their few good, they had a great number of euill, which defiled their righteousnesse, and made it like a stained cloath.
Esay. ••4.