 | Free Church of Scotland. General Assembly - 1851 - 488 pages
...forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined, to dp good or evil, con. iii. 1. ix. L Man in his state of innocency had freedom and power to will and do good, con. iv. 2. ix. 2. cat. 17. By his fall he lost all ability of will to any spiritual good... | |
 | Joseph Adshead - 1852 - 346 pages
...life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may Uve. 2. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that (к) which was good and well-pleasing to God, but yet (c) was unstable, so that he might fall from... | |
 | Joseph Adshead - 1852 - 346 pages
...life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. 2. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that (B) which was good and well-pleasing to God, but yet (c) was unstable, so that he might fall from it.... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1853 - 696 pages
...liberty and power of acting upon choice, that it is neither forced, nor, by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to do good or evil. II. Man...had freedom and power to will and to do that which was well pleasing to God; but yet mutably, so that be might fall from it. III. Man, by his fall into... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1853 - 696 pages
...liberty and power of acting upon choice, that it is neither forced, nor, by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to do good or evil. II. Man...had freedom and power to will and to do that which was well pleasing to God; but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it. III. Man, by his fall into... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1853 - 692 pages
...natural liberty an power of acting upon choice, that it is neither forced, nor, by any absolut necessity of nature, determined to do good or evil. II. Man...his state of innocency had freedom and power to will nr to do that which was well pleasing to God ; but yet mutably, so that b might fall from it III. Man,... | |
 | Randolph Sinks Foster - 1853 - 322 pages
...then, they mean by man's falling freely, they will answer ill the language of the Confession again: " Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which is good and well-pleasing to God, but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it." This again is plausible enough,... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1853 - 480 pages
...to choose either way, — • life or death. This is the doctrine of our Confession and Catechisms. "Man in his state of innocency had freedom and power to will and to do that which is good and well-pleasing to God ; but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it." — Confess, ch. ix. sec. 2.... | |
 | James Porter - 1853 - 516 pages
...that it is neither forced, nor by atiy absolute necessity of nature determined, to do good or evil. " Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and do that which was good and well pleasing to God ; but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it. "... | |
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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, so as a natural man being altogether averse from that good... 
