"You are righteousness, Lord Jesus. My sins will not prevail against you. You are the life and the resurrection. My death will not prevail against you. You are God. Satan will not prevail against you. You have given me the gift of your Spirit (2 Corinthians 1:22). I glory in this, I triumph in this, and I believe most firmly in this, doubting in no way that it has been granted that I may enter the marriage feast of the Lamb (Revelation 19:7). You are my wedding clothes, most loving Sponsor, which I have put on in Baptism (Galatians 3:27). You cover my nudity. May I never sew onto this precious and most beautiful dress any patch of my own righteousness. What is the righteousness of man except menstrual rags (Isaiah 64:6)? How then will I dare to sew this abominable cloth onto the robe of righteousness? In this robe, I will appear before your face in your Judgment when you will judge this orb of the earth in justice and equity (Acts 17:31). In this robe, I will appear before your face in the heavenly kingdom. This robe covers my confusion and impropriety, lest any of it be recorded anymore in eternity. There I will appear glorious and holy in your eyes and this flesh of mine, this body of mine clothed with most blessed glory — glory everlasting and forever—shall never perish. Come, Lord Jesus, and he who loves you, come (Revelation 22:20)!"

-Johann Gerhard, Sacred Meditations