2732. About the opinion some hold that because the Lord gives everything of faith and nothing is mankind's, one must therefore play a passive role and hang down one's hands
Some spirits on hearing and thinking that the Lord Alone lives, and they are nothing, and that the main point of faith is that the Lord Alone gives faith and that people cannot will and do anything by their own powers, had fallen into that opinion that they should therefore give up doing and behave as if they were nothing, and await a driving force and impulse from the Lord.
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