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Rh the ſin that cleaves to my beſt performance, I have been forceed to be of his opinion.

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?

Hopef. 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. Ye, 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 trſting 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 mans righteouſneſs could be of that efficacy, to juſtifie 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 us; to whom his doings, and the worthineſs of them