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1. God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty and power of acting upon choice; that it is 1neither forced, nor by any necessity of nature determined to do good or evil.
2. Man in his state of innocence had freedom and power to will and to do that 2which was good and well-pleasing to God; but yet 3was mutable, so that he might fall from it.
3. Man by his fall into a state of sin hath wholly lost 4all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good 5and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to 6convert himself or to prepare himself thereunto.
4. When God converts a sinner and translates him into the state of grace 7he frees him from his natural bondage under sin, and by his grace alone, enables him 8freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so as that by reason of his 9remaining corruptions he doth not perfectly nor only will that which is good; but doth also will that which is evil.
5. The will of man is made 10perfectly and immutably free to good alone, in the state of glory only.