At this [the words of the women who witnessed to him] my own heart began to shake, as mistrusting my condition to be nought [not saved]; for I saw that in all my thoughts about religion and salvation, the new birth did never enter into my mind, neither knew I the comfort of the word, and promise, nor the deceitfulness and treachery of my own wicked heart (John Bunyan, "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners," The Works of John Bunyan, Banner of Truth Trust, 1991 reprint, volume I, p.