Utrum horum, or, The nine and thirty articles of the Church of England, at large recited, and compared with the doctrines of those commonly called Presbyterians on the one side, and the tenets of the Church of Rome on the other both faithfully quoted from their own most approved authors / by Hen. Care.

The Presbyterians.

* 1.1Man in his state of Innocency had freedom and power to will and to do that which was good and well plea∣sing to God, but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it.

Man by his fall into a state of Sin, hath wholly lost all Ability of Will to any Spiritual Good accompanying Sal∣vation: So as a natural Man being al∣together averse from that good, and dead in Sin, is not able by his own strength to Convert himself, or to pre∣pare himself thereunto.

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, inables him freely to will and to do that which is Spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining Corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only will that which is Good, but doth also that which is evil.

The Will of Man is made perfectly and immediately free to Good alone, in the state of Glory.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Ass. Conf. cap. 9.