5. It is a setting up of our folly in the place of God's wisdom, and preferring it before him; as if we were wiser to know how to govern ourselves, and to know what is fittest and best for us now to do, than God is. 6. It is a contempt of the goodness of God, as he is the maker of the law: as if he had not done that which is best, but that which may be corrected or contradicted, and there were some evil in it to be avoided.[100] 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. 17. It is a contempt of all the examples of his mercies on the obedient, and his terrible judgments on the disobedient, (men and devils,) by which he warned us not to sin. 18. It is a contempt of the person, office, sufferings, and grace of Jesus Christ, who came to save us from our sins, and to destroy the works of the devil; being contrary to his bloodshed, authority, and healing work. 19. It is a contradicting, fighting against, and in that act prevailing against the sanctifying office and work of the Holy Ghost, that moveth us against sin, and to obedience. 20. It is a contempt of holiness, and a defacing, in that measure, the image of God upon the soul, or a rejecting it: a vilifying of all those graces which are contrary to the sin. 21. It is a pleasing of the devil, the enemy of God and us, and an obeying him before God. 22. It is the fault of a rational creature, that had reason given him to do better. 23. It is all willingly done and chosen by a free agent, that could not be constrained to it.[101] 24. It is a robbing God of the honour and pleasure which he should have had in our obedience; and the glory which we should bring him before the world. 25. It is a contempt of the omnipresence and omniscience of God, when we will sin against him before his face, when he stands over us, and seeth all that we do.