 | Charles Marsh Mead - 1905 - 404 pages
...commit sin.1 The Westminster Confession says that God has endued the will with a "natural liberty that is neither forced nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to good or evil." But it is at once added that, by the fall, man "hath wholly lost 1 So the First and... | |
 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1906 - 650 pages
...would be difficult to improve (Chap. X.) : ' 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.' Chalmers vindicated this doctrine, and threw new light upon it, in all his teaching,... | |
 | John Stewart Templeton - 1906 - 248 pages
...dispensation. CHAP. IK.— Of Free Will. 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. II. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which... | |
 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1906 - 654 pages
...would be difficult to improve (Chap. X.) : ' 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.' Chalmers vindicated this doctrine, and threw new light upon it, in all his teaching,... | |
 | Scotland - 1908 - 240 pages
...dispensation CHAP ix. OF FREE WILL 1. GOD hath indued the will of man with that naturall liberty that is neither forced nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to do good or evill 2. MAN in his state of innocency had freedom and power to will and to do that which was good... | |
 | William Joseph McGlothlin - 1911 - 388 pages
...deliver, and pre3^ L-uk. i. serve us to his Heavenly Kingdome. CHAP. IX. Of Free Will. 1. GOD hath indued the Will of Man, with that natural liberty, and power of acting up1 Mat. 17. on choice; that it is1 neither 14' Deut *' forced, nor by any necessity of na30! 19. tnre... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1919 - 966 pages
...Mitchell, p. Ixi.). 1 Comp. Ch. IX. 1 : 'God hath endued the will of mnn with that natural liberty that it is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined, to good or evil (Matt. xrii. 12; Dent. xxx. 19). 'The term atonement is not used in the Confession. The... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1919 - 950 pages
...ii. 15. CHAPTER IX. Of free-will. I. God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that 'is neither forced nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to good or evil.* II. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which... | |
 | Eldred Cornelius Vanderlaan - 1925 - 500 pages
...led and illumined by the spirit of God. "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." The Bible is not a law book, embodying God's past decisions. It is a living book, through... | |
 | John H. Leith - 1982 - 760 pages
...dispensation. CHAPTER IX. Of Free-will. I. God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is neither forced nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to good or evil. II. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which... | |
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Man by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation... 
