God never set good and evil before anybody and gave them a right to make a choice of them. God is too good to give anybody the right to do wrong. When man does wrong, he always violates the command and laws of God, and hence is responsible for his own condemnation.

Arminianism says God gives the sinner a right to choose evil, and absolutism says God., in eternity, absolutely fixed and decreed for man to do evil. Period. They are both wrong. Either theory says God is unequal in His ways, denies justice and man's condemnation for sin and destroys his accountability. If man's condemnation is just, then God is not under any obligation to deliver him unless through mercy, He has. promised and purposed to do so. If the sinner's condemnation is not just, then it would be unjust to punish anyone. If God, and His infinite love and mercy, has seen fit to purpose to save just one Sinner out of all the great mass of guilty sinners, still he remains a just and holy God, for in this act of mercy he does not reprobate anyone, nor make their condition worse. The man that has been enabled, by the light of Divine. grace, to see himself a justly condemned sinner before God, is not apt to say that God is under obligation to him, or that He is unjust if he doesn't give it. Everybody a chance; but, instead of such thoughts, his cry is for mercy, and realizes that a chance, or even justice, alone, would forever banish him from the peaceful presence of God.

The first and most important lesson for a poor Sinner to learn before he will ever have a right conception of God and acknowledged the justice of his ways, and before he will ever appreciate and rejoice in the glorious theme of discriminating grace, he must be taught to see his own depraved condition. And this is something that man cannot teach. If a man has learned this lesson, then he has been taught of God, and is in good condition to be taught about God.