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When I look into my self, my Sins ap∣pear by great multitudes! But a Righteous∣ness of my own I cannot find, which does deserve to be called by the name of Righte∣ousness. If the Elect Angels do cover their faces in the presence of a God glorious in Holiness, how shall sinful man appear with∣out a Mediatour! They that are ignorant may be Proud and Self-conceited, and may trust to themselves that they are Righteous, but one view of Gods unspotted purity
and exact justice, is enough to cause in any mortal man self-distrust, nay self-abhorren∣cy. The Sun is confounded, and the Moon ashamed, the Heavens are not clean in the sight of Him that made them; the Angels themselves are charged with folly, what is man that he should be Righteous!