...respected the will of man, not his constitutional powers ; a change in the voluntary use of his will. " ' Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost.' " Lost ! Lost what? Lost his will as endued by his- Maker with * Ely's Contrast, p. 40, where the references...

...conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by ordinary generation ;• and that from this original corruption", whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled and made opposite to ail good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions. In the Heidleberg...

...other miseries, spiritual, temporal and eternal, unless the Lord Jesus set them free. " 4. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed,...wholly inclined to all evil,, do proceed all actual transgres. sions." — p. 26. If now we call on the Catholic to inform us what his faith 18 on these...

...on the Westminster Confession by a mere quibble on the word will1? That instrument declares, that " Man, by his fall into a state of sin hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good." But these men now come forward and say, that this means not that he has not power to choose right,...

...in the Presbyterian Confession of Faith, which insists upon an " original corruption, whereby they are utterly indisposed, disabled and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil." We must all allow the general depravity pervading the world, and the many strong propensities which...

...in all the faculties and parts of soul and body, by this original corruption, we, ( his posterity, ) are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, a natural man being altogether averse from that which is good, and dead in sin, is not able by his...

...salvation of others. mining them to that which is good, and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ." " Man by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost...ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying sal ration. So as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able,...

...Presbyterian Church, respecting the present moral condition of the impenitent, is the following, viz : — " Man by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost...ability of will, to any spiritual good, accompanying sal- . vation ; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from what is good, and dead in sin, is...

...doctrine in another form. It is, indeed, somewhat strange that the sincere Calvinist, who declares that "Man by his fall into a state of sin hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good" — that "those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God hath chosen into everlasting glory,...

...posterity, descending from them by ordinary generation."* Again, in the chapter on free will, it says, " Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability to any spiritual good accompanying salvation ; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that...