As Like Filthy Rags, without the Righteousness of Christ

O Soul! do not think when your sins pursue you, that a little praying and reforming your ways will pacify God. You must begin with your heart. If that is not renewed you can no more please God than one who, having unspeakably offended you, should bring you the most loathesome thing to pacify you; or having fallen into the mire, should think with his filthy embraces to reconcile you.
—Joseph Alleine

(Isa 64:6; Heb. 11:6; Matt. 7:13-14)