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I. 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, (Mat 17:12; Jam 1:14; Deu 30:19).
II. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom, and power to will and to do that which was good and well pleasing to God, (Ecc 7:29; Gen 1:26); but yet, mutably, so that he might fall from it, (Gen 2:16-17; Gen 3:6).
III. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation, (Rom 5:6; Rom 8:7; Jhn 15:5): so as, a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, (Rom 3:10, 12); and dead in sin, (Eph 2:1, 5; Col 2:13); is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto, (Jhn 6:44, 65; Eph 2:2-5; 1Co 2:14; Tts 3:3-5).
IV. When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, He freeth him from his natural bondage under sin, (Col 1:13; Jhn 8:34, 36); and, by His grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good, (Phl 2:13; Rom 6:18, 22); 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, (Gal 5:17 Rom 7:15, 18-19, 21, 23).
V. The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone in the state of glory only, (Eph 4:13; Hbr 12:23; 1Jo 3:2; Jud 24).
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