“But how is this possible?  All the dyers upon earth cannot dye a red into white; and how, then, is it possible that my sins which are as red as scarlet should ever be made as white as snow?  Indeed such retrogradation  is no work of human art; it must be only his doing who brought the sun ten degrees back in the dial of Ahaz:  for God hath a nitre of grace that can bring not only the redness of scarlet sins, but even the blackness of deadly sins, into its native purity and whiteness again.”  (Sir Richard Baker; 1568-1645)