7. [49.] VII If anyone saith, that free will moved and excited by God, by assenting to God exciting and calling, nowise cooperates towards disposing and preparing itself for obtaining the grace of justification, that it cannot refuse its consent, if it would, but that, as something inanimate, it does nothing whatever and is merely passive; let him be accursed. (Canon 4.)
[50.] If anyone saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified, so as to mean that nothing else is required to cooperate in order to the obtaining the grace of justification, and that it is not in any way necessary, that he be prepared and disposed by the movement of his own will; let him be accursed. (Canon 9.)
[51.] If anyone saith, that the justified sins when he performs good works with a view to an eternal recompense; let him be accursed. (Canon 31.)
[52.] That by the sin of Adam, although free will, attenuated as it was in its powers, and bent down, was by no means extinguished. (Sess. VI. 1547, Jan. 13, Chap. 1.)
[53.] That man from free will can convert himself, by freely asserting and cooperating with that grace. (Ibid., Chap. 5.)
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