My heart tells me so.
CHR. Ask my fellow if I be a thief! Thy heart tells thee so! Except
the Word of God beareth witness in this matter, other testimony is
of no value.
{357} IGNOR. But is it not a good heart that hath good thoughts?
and is not that a good life that is according to God's commandments?
CHR. Yes, that is a good heart that hath good thoughts, and that
is a good life that is according to God's commandments; but it is
one thing, indeed, to have these, and another thing only to think
so.
IGNOR. Pray, what count you good thoughts, and a life according to
God's commandments?
CHR. There are good thoughts of divers kinds; some respecting
ourselves, some God, some Christ, and some other things.
IGNOR. What be good thoughts respecting ourselves?
CHR. Such as agree with the Word of God.
{358} IGNOR. When do our thoughts of ourselves agree with the Word
of God?
CHR. When we pass the same judgment upon ourselves which the Word
passes. To explain myself -- the Word of God saith of persons in
a natural condition, "There is none righteous, there is none that
doeth good." [Rom. 3] It saith also, that "every imagination of
the heart of man is only evil, and that continually.
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