Animadver.
You might also as well say, The esteeming of a righteous person to be as he is: But neither our persons nor our actions are so righteous, but that we may be accused of, and condemn∣ed for sin in them, and so without the mercy of God in Christ must be. There's not a just man upon earth, that doth good and sinneth not. Eccles. 7. 20. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive our selves, and the truth is not in us. If we con∣siss our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us, &c. 1 John 1. 8, 9. If God shall contend with us, we cannot answer him one of a thousand, Job 9. 3. Aaron was to bear the ini∣quity of the holy things, which the children of Israel did hal∣low in all their holy gifts, Exod. 28. 38. So that even in our holy things there is iniquity, which Christ the true High-Priest doth bear, that so it may not be imputed to us.