...subject to change, so that he might fall from it, Eccl. vii. 29. Gen. iii. 6. When man fell into «in, he lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so that a natural man, being averse from good, and «li'iul in sin, is unable, by his own strength, separate...

...language of our Confession of Faith perfectly accords. " Man by his fall bath wholly lost all ahility of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation:...as a natural man, being altogether averse from that which is good, and dead io sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself or to prepare...

...Rev. Author of the Sermon on election, are not likely to make us relinquish our ancient creed, that man, "by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to do any spiritual good accompanying salvation." Seeing that our Saviour taught us that the natural man...

...and Confession of Faith, chap, vii.] Of Free-Will. 1 . Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hnl It wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation ; so as 5. " This humanity being the medium by which man may come to God the Father, and God the Father to...

...power. On the contrary, the associate presbytery assert, that man by^ his fall into a state of sin, has wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation ; and that, in his natural state, being enmity against God and averse from all spiritual good, is not...

...opposite to all good, and wholly Inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions." Again, "Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly...as a natural man, being altogether averse from that which is good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength to convert himself, or to prepare...

...clearly by any other rational man than a Calvinist. When we read in the calvinistic formulary, that "Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath WHOLLY...so as a natural man, being altogether averse from good, and dead in sin, is not able by his own strength to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto;"*...

...first proposition, with what is so broadly and explicitly stated in the last. The opinion which the ,' Man by his fall into a state of sin hath wholly lost...convert himself or to prepare himself thereunto.' Westminster divines intended to express respecting ' the natural liberty of the will,' was, I presume,...

...proceed all actual transgressions. So says the Westminster Assembly's Confession. (Ch. IX.) ' Man by hi* fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability...any spiritual good accompanying salvation ; so as a nainr.il man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able by his own strength...

...clearly by any other rational man than a Calvinist. When we read in the calvinistic formulary, that " Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath WHOLLY...so as a natural man, being altogether averse from good, and dead in sin, is not able by his own strength to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto...