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The humble advice of the Assembly of Divines, now
The humble advice of the Assembly of Divines, now by authority of Parliament sitting at Westminster, concerning a confession of faith, presented by them lately to both houses of Parliament. A certain number of copies are ordered to be printed only for the use of the members of both houses and of the Assembly of Divines, to the end that they may advise thereupon.
London: printed for Company of Stationers, 1646
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.
CHAP. IX. Of Free-Will.
GOD hath endued the Will of man with that natural liberty, that it is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to good or evil.
GOD hath indued the Will of man with that naturall liberty, that it is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to good or evil.
II. Man, in his state of Innocency, had freedom, and ⟨p. 19⟩power, to will, and to do that which was good, and well pleasing to God; but yet, mutably, so that he might fall from it.
II. Man, in his state of Innocency, had freedom, and ⟨p. 19⟩power, to will, and to doe that which was good, and well pleasing to God; but yet, mutably, so that he might fall from it.
III. Man by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of Will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation: so as, a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.