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 was unstable,
so that he might fall from it.
(
Ecclesiastes
7:29; Genesis
3:6 )
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.
(
Romans
5:6;Romans
8:7; Ephesians
2:1, 5; Titus
3:3-5; John
6:44 )
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 corruptions, he doth not
perfectly, nor only will, that which is good, but doth also will that which
is evil.
(
Colossians
1:13; John
8:36; Philippians
2:13; Romans
7:15, 18, 19, 21, 23 )
5._____ This will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good
alone in the state of glory only.
(
Ephesians
4:13 )