Paragraph 9.1
Chapter 9: 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.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF
Changes from Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.1
No change, but in spelling and punctuation.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.1
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.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.1
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.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 9.1
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.
Commentaries (2)
David Dickson, 1684, Truths Victory over Error
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.1, which this paragraph revises
Hath Man by his fall, into an estate of sin, wholly lost all ability of will, to any supernatural good, accompanying salvation: so as a Natural Man being altogether averse from…
David Dickson’s text
John Macpherson, 1881, The Westminster Confession of Faith, with Introduction and Notes
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.1, which this paragraph revises
There are two rival philosophical theories of the will, the Libertarian and the Necessitarian, either of which may be held quite consistently with the statement of this section of…
John Macpherson’s text