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1693·The Common Faith
Question 28 of 61
A Catechism for Babes, or, Little Ones

How then can you avoid Gods curse?

Answer

I am guilty, and I cannot avoid Gods curse, by any deeds that I can doe (; ; ).

Read the 3 proof texts (KJV)
Romans 3:19-20
19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 11:6
And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;