He Had Always Observed

Mr Johnson approved of the Shepherd's sincerity, for he had always observed, that where there was no humility, and no watchfulness against sin, there was no religion; and he said, that the man, who did not feel himself to be a sinner, in his opinion, could not be a Christian.  

Taken from the Tract The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain. In the book The Publications of the American Tract Society. Tracts are from the sixteenth to nineteenth century.