. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . thoughts good ones, because according to theword of God. Ign. I will never believe that my heart is thus bad. Chr. Therefore thou never hadst one good thought con-cerning thyself in thy life. But let me go on. As the wordpasseth a judgment upon our heart, so it passeth a judgmentupon our ways ; and when our thoughts of our hearts andways agree with the judgment which the word giveth of both,then are both good, because agreeing thereto. Ign. Make out your meaning. Chr. Why, the word of
. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . thoughts good ones, because according to theword of God. Ign. I will never believe that my heart is thus bad. Chr. Therefore thou never hadst one good thought con-cerning thyself in thy life. But let me go on. As the wordpasseth a judgment upon our heart, so it passeth a judgmentupon our ways ; and when our thoughts of our hearts andways agree with the judgment which the word giveth of both,then are both good, because agreeing thereto. Ign. Make out your meaning. Chr. Why, the word of God saith, that mans ways arecrooked ways ; not good, but perverse. It saith, they arenaturally out of the good way, that they have not known it.*Now, when a man thus thinketh of his ways—I say, whenhe doth sensibly and with heart-humiliation thus think, thenhath he good thoughts of his own ways, because his thoughtsnow agree with the judgment of the word of God. Ign. WTiat are good thoughts concerning God ? Chr. Even (as I have said concerning ourselves) when our * Ps. cxxv/5; Prov. ii. 15; Kom. thoughts of God do agree with what the word saith of Him;and that is, when we think of His being and attributes as theword hath taught, of which I cannot now discourse at to speak of Him with reference to us : then we haveright thoughts of God when we think that He knows usbetter than we know ourselves, and can see sin in us whenand where we can see none in ourselves ; when we think Heknows our inmost thoughts, and that our heart with all itsdepths is always open unto His eyes; also, when we thinkthat all our righteousness stinks in his nostrils, and that ignorances faith. 199 therefore He cannot abide to see ns stand before Him in anyconfidence even of all our best performances. Ign. Do you think that I am such a fool as to think Godcan see no further than I ? or that I would come to God inthe best of my performances ? Che. Why, how dost thou think in this matter ?
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