The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

3 That every man is the proper cause of his own sin, and the guilt of it does properly belong to him, the carnal reason of […] is casting in many objection• from the decree of God, from the withdrawing of divine assistance; and from the corruption of nature; but the Scripture does allow none of th•se objections, but fastens the guilt of sin upon him that does transgress the Law, and blames •en for their iniquities: and men lay not wright on these cavils, so as to excuse others that are injurious unto them, and there is this reason for it, because men act voluntarily in their transgressions, they are not forced to sin but choose it.

3 That every man is the proper cause of his own sin, and the guilt of it does properly belong to him, the carnal reason of 〈…〉 is casting in many objection• from the decree of God, from the withdrawing of divine assistance; and from the corruption of nature; but the Scripture does allow none of th•se objections, but fastens the guilt of sin upon him that does transgress the Law, and blames •en for their iniquities: and men lay not wright on these cavils, so as to excuse others that are injurious unto them, and there is this reason for it, because men act voluntarily in their transgressions, they are not forced to sin but choose it.

3. It was great love for God to give his Son to dye for our salvation, when he might justly have damned us: when it was a righteous thing for him to have ruined us, when he had us in his hands, and might have cast us off for ever: his proceedings would not have been unjust, he had done us no wrong, there had been no cruelty in it, if he had thrown us into hell, he would not any ways have trespassed upon any rule of righteousness: but only •aye done that which was fair and equal, no imputation