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Chap. IX.

Of Free-will.

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 evil^[1].

II. Man, in his ſtate of Innocency, had freedom and, power, to will, and to doe that which was good, and well pleaſing to God^[2]; but yet, mutably, ſo that hee might fall from it^[3].

III. Man by his fall into a ſtate of ſin, hath wholly loſt all ability of Will to any ſpirituall good accompanying ſalvation^[4]: ſo as, a naturall man, being altogether averſe from that good^[5], and dead in ſin^[6], is not able, by his own ſtrength, to convert himſelfe, or to prepare himſelf thereunto^[7].

IV. When God converts a ſinnner, and tranſlates him into the ſtate of grace he freeth him from his natural bondage under ſin^[8] and by his grace alone, inables him freely to will, and to do that which is ſpiritually good^[9], yet ſo, as that by reaſon of his remaining corruption, he doth not, perfectly, nor onely, will which is good, but doth alſo will that which is evil^[10].

V. The will of man is made perfectly, and immutably free to good alone, in the ſtate of Glory only^[11].

1. Mat. 17. 12.
   Iam. 1. 14.
   Deut. 30. 19
2. Eccleſ. 7. 29
   Gen. 1. 25
3. Gen. 2. 17, 17
   Gen. 3. 6
4. Rom. 5. 6
   Rom. 8. 7
   Iohn 15. 5
5. Rom 3. 10, 12
6. Eph. 2. 1, 5
   Col. 2. 13.
7. Ioh. 6. 44, 65
   Eph. 2. 2. 3, 4, 5
   1 Cor. 8. 14.
   Titus 3. 3. 4, 5
8. Col. 1. 13
   Ioh. 8. 34, 36
9. Phil. 2. 13
   Rom. 6. 18, 22
10. Gal. 5. 17
    Rom. 7. 15, 18 19, 21, 23
11. Eph. 4. 13
    Heb. 12. 23
    1 Iohn 3. 2.
    Iude v. 24.