Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF
Chapter 9: Of Free Will
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin, and by his grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so as that, by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.
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Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.4
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin, and by his grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so as that, by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.4
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his naturall bondage under sin; and, by his grace alone, inables him freely to will, and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not, perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 9.4
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin, and by his grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so as that, by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.4, 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…
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 9.4, which this paragraph revises
We have here the condition of the will described in the case of a sinner saved by grace. Deliverance of the human will from the bondage of sin is viewed as purely an act of divine…
