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 many good works of my own as I could into the other; and when I found, as I always did, my own good works not to be a balance to the divine justice, I then threw in Christ as a makeweight. And this every one really does, who hopes for salvation partly by doing what he can for himself, and then relying on Christ for the rest. But, dear Sir, Christ will either be a whole Saviour or none at all.
John Berridge — 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
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