Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF

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Chapter 9: Of Free Will

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.

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Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.3

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.

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.3

Man by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of Will to any spirituall good accompanying salvation: so as, a naturall 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.

Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 9.3

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.

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