WCF 9.1
God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is neither forced nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to good or evil. 1
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Confession Library / Westminster Confession of Faith
On Free Will
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WCF 9.2
Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which is good and well-pleasing to God, 1 but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it. 2
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WCF 9.3
Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; 1 so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, 2 and dead in sin, 3 is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself…
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WCF 9.4
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin, 1 and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; 2 yet so as that, by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth…
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WCF 9.5
The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone, in the state of glory only. 1
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