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-LSB- Isa . 64:6 -RSB- `` By the works of the law shall no flesh be justified . '' -LSB- Gal . 2:16 -RSB- `` When ye shall have done all those things , say , We are unprofitable '' , -LSB- Luke 17:10 -RSB- with many more such like . From whence I began to reason with myself thus : If ALL my righteousnesses are filthy rags ; if , by the deeds of the law , NO man can be justified ; and if , when we have done ALL , we are yet unprofitable , then it is but a folly to think of heaven by the law . I further thought thus : If a man runs a hundred pounds into the shopkeeper 's debt , and after that shall pay for all that he shall fetch ; yet , if this old debt stands still in the book uncrossed , for that the shopkeeper may sue him , and cast him into prison till he shall pay the debt . CHR .