felt very angry," he said, " at the term, * righteous- 
ness of God;' for, after the manner of all the teachers, I was 
taught to understand it in a philosophic sense, of that righteous- 
ness by which God is just and punisheth the guilty. Though 
I had lived without reproach, I felt myself to be a great sinner 
before God, and was of a very quick , and had not 
 in a reconciliation with God to be produced by any 
work or  or merit of my own. For this cause t had 
in me no wordnetdesire of a righteous and angry God, but secretly hated 
him, and thought within myself. Is it not enough that God has 
condemned us to everlasting death by Adam's sin, and that we 
must suffer so much  and  in this life? Over and 
above the wordnetfear and threatening of the law, must he needs in- 
crease by the gospel our  and , and, by the preach- 
ing of the same, thunder against us his justice and fierce 
wordnetanger 1 My confused  ofttimes did cast me into wordnetanger 
of wordnetanger, and I sought day and night to make out the meaning 
of Paul; and at last I came to apprehend it thus: Through the 
gospel is revealed the righteousness which availeth with God  
a righteousness