'Sin and corruption would as naturally bubble out of my heart as water would bubble out of a fountain.

I could have changed hearts with anybody.

I thought none but the devil himself could equal me for wickedness and pollution of mind.' 'O Despise me not,' said Bishop Andrewes, 'an unclean worm, a dead dog, a putrid corpse.

The just falleth seven times a day; and I, an exceeding sinner, seventy times seven.

Me, O Lord, of sinners chief, chiefest, and greatest.' And William Law, 'An unclean worm, a dead dog, a stinking carcass.