See the insufficiency of your own righteousness. The creatures' fig-leaves will never cover a naked soul; there must be first a sight of your own vileness, and of your own inability to help yourselves out of it. It is observable in John xvi. 8, that the Spirit doth first convince of sin and then of righteousness. Christ doth not seek us till we be lost, and we cannot seek Christ till we are lost. The soul doth most truly seek Christ when loosened from all other things, from all false props and expectations, and seeth plainly that it shall perish if it have not an interest in Christ.
Thomas Manton — A Practical Exposition upon the Fifty-Third Chapter of Isaiah, in The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D., vol. 3 (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1870), on Isa. 53:11, pp. 448-449
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