When I had thus considered these scriptures and found that thus to
understand them was not against, but according to the Scriptures,
this still added further to my encouragement and comfort, and also
gave a great blow to that objection--to wit, that the Scriptures
could not agree in the salvation of my soul.

And now remained only the hinder part of the tempest, for the
thunder was gone beyond me, only some drops did still remain that
now and then would fall upon me; but because my former frights and
anguish were very sore and deep, therefore it oft befell me still,
as it befalleth those that have been seared with the fire, I thought
every voice was, "Fire, fire'!" Every little touch would hurt my
tender conscience.

But one day, as I was passing into the field, and that too with some
dashes on my conscience, fearing lest yet all was not right,
suddenly this sentence fell upon my soul: "Thy righteousness is in
heaven;" and methought withal I saw with the eyes of my soul Jesus
Christ at God's right hand--there, I say, as my righteousness; so
that wherever I was, or whatever I was doing, God could not say to
me, he wanted my righteousness, for that was just before him. I also
saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my
righteousness better, nor yet my bad frame that made my
righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself,
"the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever."

Now did my chains fall off my legs indeed; I was loosed frorn my
afflictions and irons; my temptations also fled away; so that from
that time those dreadful scriptures [Footnote: Numb. 15:30; Jer.