Paragraph 9.2
Chapter 9: Of Free Will
Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which is good and well-pleasing to God; but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it.
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 9.2
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.2
Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which was is good and well-pleasing to God; but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.2
Man, in his state of Innocency, had freedom, and 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.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 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; but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it.
Commentaries (2)
David Dickson, 1684, Truths Victory over Error
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.2, 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 9.2, which this paragraph revises
Man’s will in its original purity was efficient for good, and yet from its very nature arose the possibility of the loss of this efficiency. When man was first called to exercise…
John Macpherson’s text