The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

CHRISTIAN: "And did you ask Faithful who this Man was — and how
you must be justified by Him?”
HOPEFUL: "Yes, and he told me it was the Lord Jesus, who dwells on the
right hand of the Most High God. And thus he said that I must be
justified by Him — even by trusting in what He Himself has done
during His earthly life — and what He suffered when He hung on the
tree.
"I asked him further — how that Man's righteousness could be effectual
to justify another before God? And he told me that He was the mighty
God, and that both His life and His death, was not for Himself — but for
me, to whom the worthiness of His doings would be imputed, if I
believed on Him."
CHRISTIAN: "And what did you do then?”
HOPEFUL: "I made objections against my believing — for I thought that
He was not willing to save me."
CHRISTIAN: "And what did Faithful say to you then?"
HOPEFUL: "He bid me to go to Him and see. And I told him that this
would be presumption. But he said, 'Not so — for I was invited to come.'
Then he gave me a Book of Jesus, in His own words, to encourage me to
come the more freely. He also said, concerning that Book, that its every
jot and tittle stood firmer than Heaven and earth.
"Then I asked Faithful what I must do when I go to Him. He told me that
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