 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 490 pages
...FREELY, being made willing by his grace." " God hath endued the will of man with natural liberty, so that it is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to good or evil." "When God converts a sinner, and translates him into a state of grace, he freeth him... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1856 - 636 pages
...fully satisfied the justice of God, and hath purchased reconciliation, and an eternal inheritance.' ' God hath endued the will of man with that natural...necessity of nature, determined to do good or evil.' ' Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them they may be things, which God commands,... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1856 - 644 pages
...fully satisfied the justice of God, and hath purchased reconciliation, and an eternal inheritance.' ' God hath endued the will of man with that natural...necessity of nature, determined to do good or evil.' ' Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them they may be things, which God commands,... | |
 | William Adams - 1856 - 296 pages
...endowed with perfect freedom. In the well-ordered words of the Westminster Confession, " God endowed the will of man with that natural liberty and power...necessity of nature determined, to do good or evil." Nothing so exalts our idea of the goodness and power of the Almighty as the creation of a being capable... | |
 | 1856 - 538 pages
...the Confession says, chapter IX:— ' I. God hath endured -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... | |
 | Robert Shaw - 1857 - 404 pages
...CHAPTER IX. OF FREE WILL. SECTION 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.1 i Matt. xvii. 12. James i. 14. Deut. xxx. 19. EXPOSITION. The decision of most of the... | |
 | 1858 - 688 pages
...established." Said Confession further saith : " 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 do good or evil." At start, we may remark on the first of these extracts, that to affirm that God is the preordainer... | |
 | Sewall Sylvester Cutting - 1859 - 243 pages
...xvi. 8; Psalm ex. 3; Luke i. 5 Rom. viii. 9,14. 74, 75. CHAPTER IX. OF FREE WILL. 1. God hath indued the will of man with that natural liberty and power of acting upon choice, that it is l neither forced, nor by any necessity of nature determined to do good or evil. 2. Man, in his state... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.). Third Presbyterian church - 1859 - 66 pages
...13; John iii. 5. 5. You believe that God hath endued the will of man with natural liberty, so that he is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to good or evil, and therefore is responsible to God for all his actions, thoughts, and feelings; and... | |
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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... 
