A47381:27
The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ
The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ, or, Congregation meeting at Horsley-down Benjamin Keach, pastor, as asserted this 10th of the 6th month, 1697.
London : s.n., 1697
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Of Man's Free-will.
VIII. WE believe Man in his state of Innocency had freedom of Will to do good; ⟨p. 8⟩but by the Fall he hath utterly lost all that Power and Ability,1 being woefully depraved in all the Faculties of his Soul; there being in the Will and Mind of all naturally much Enmity against God,2 and a total aversion to him, and to every thing that is spiritually good;3 loving Darkness, and rebelling against the Light.
VIII. WE believe Man in his state of Innocency had freedom of Will to do good; ⟨p. 8⟩but by the Fall he hath utterly lost all that Power and Ability,1 being wofully depraved in all the Faculties of his Soul; there being in the Will and Mind of all naturally much Enmity against God,2 and a total aversion to him, and to every thing that is spiritually good;3 loving Darkness, and rebelling against the Light.