Of Man's Free-will.
VIII. WE believe Man in his state of Innocency had freedom of Will to do good;
The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ, or, Congregation meeting at Horsley-down Benjamin Keach, pastor, as asserted this 10th of the 6th month, 1697.
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- The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ, or, Congregation meeting at Horsley-down Benjamin Keach, pastor, as asserted this 10th of the 6th month, 1697.
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- Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.
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- London :: [s.n.],
- 1697.
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"The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ, or, Congregation meeting at Horsley-down Benjamin Keach, pastor, as asserted this 10th of the 6th month, 1697." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47381.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 22, 2025.
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but by the Fall he hath utterly lost all that Power and Ability,* 1.1 being wofully depraved in all the Facul∣ties of his Soul; there being in the Will and Mind of all naturally much Enmity against God,* 1.2 and a total aversion to him, and to eve∣ry thing that is spiritually good;* 1.3 loving Darkness, and rebelling a∣gainst the Light.
* 1.4But when a Man is renewed by Divine Grace, tho there is no force put upon the Will,* 1.5 yet it is made willing, and acts freely, in the day of God's Power: tho the Work is not perfect in any Faculty in the Regenerate, nor will be in this Life.
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* 1.1
Ephes. 2.2, 3.
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* 1.2
Rom. 8.7.
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* 1.3
Job 24.13.
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* 1.4
Ephes. 4.28.
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* 1.5
Col. 1.21. Psal. 110.3. Rom. 7.11, 17, 18, 23, 24.