7. It is a preferring our naughtiness before his goodness, as if we would do it better, or choose better what to do.
8. It is a contempt or denial of the holiness and purity of God, which sets him against sin, as light is against darkness.
9. It is a violation of God's propriety or dominion, robbing him of the use and service of that which is absolutely and totally his own.
10. It is a claiming of propriety in ourselves, as if we were our own, and might do with ourselves as we list.
11. It is a contempt of the gracious promises of God, by which he allured and bound us to obedience.
12. It is a contempt of the dreadful threatenings of God, by which he would have restrained us from evil.
13. It is a contempt or denial of the dreadful day of judgment, in which an account must be given of that sin.
14. It is a denying of God's veracity, and giving him the lie: as if he were not to be believed in all his predictions, promises, and threats.
15. It is a contempt of all the present mercies, (which are innumerable and great,) by which God obligeth and encourageth us to obey.
16. It is a contempt of our own afflictions, and his chastisements of us, by which he would drive us from our sins.