Brief Exposition (Stanley) n. 6

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6. Concerning Free-will. (a) Free-will is by no means destroyed by Adam's sin, although it is impaired and warped thereby Sess. VI, chap. 1. (b) If anyone shall say that man's free-will, when moved and aroused by God, cannot at all cooperate by concurring with God Who stirs and calls it, so that man may dispose and prepare himself to receive the grace of justification; or that he cannot dissent if he wishes, but like something inanimate is merely passive and can do nothing, let him be accursed: Sess. VI, can. 4.


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