Justification by Faith Alone (letter to a clergyman in Nottinghamshire), in The Whole Works of the Rev. John Berridge, 2nd ed. (London: Ebenezer Palmer, 1864), p. 349

I did not seek after righteousness through faith, but as it were by the works of the law. Thus I stumbled and fell, Rom. ix. 31, 32. In short, to use a homely similitude, I put the justice of God into one scale, and as m…