Chapter 9
Of Free Will
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.
(Col. 1:13Col. 1:13
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13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: his...: Gr. the Son of his love
WP-Bible plugin; John 8:36John 8:36
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36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
WP-Bible plugin; Phil. 2:13Phil. 2:13
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13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
WP-Bible plugin; Rom. 7:15, 18, 19, 21, 23Rom. 7:15, 18, 19, 21, 23
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15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. allow: Gr. know
18 For I know that in me dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
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5. This will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone in the state of glory only.
(Eph. 4:13Eph. 4:13
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13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: in: or, into stature: or, age
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