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WCF Westminster Confession of Faith
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9.5
Of Free Will
The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to do good alone, in the …
9.1
Of Free Will
God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is neither forced, nor by any absolute …
9.2
Of Free Will
Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which was good, and well pleasing …
9.3
Of Free Will
… by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation: so as, a natural man, being altogether averse …
9.4
Of Free Will
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, He freeth him from his natural bondage under sin; and, by His grace alone, enables him …
17.2
Of the Perseverance of the Saints
This perseverance of the saints depends not upon their own free will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free
20.1
Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
The liberty which Christ hath purchased for believers under the Gospel consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, and condemning wrath of God, the curse of the …
2.1
Of God, and of the Holy Trinity
… body, parts, or passions, immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, most wise, most holy, most free, most absolute, working all things according to the counsel of His own immutable and …
3.5
Of God’s Eternal Decree
… His eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of His will, hath chosen, in Christ, unto everlasting glory, out of His mere free grace and …
3.6
Of God’s Eternal Decree
… hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath He, by the eternal and most free purpose of His will, fore-ordained all the means thereunto. Wherefore they who are elected, …
5.1
Of Providence
… by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible fore-knowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of …
5.3
Of Providence
God in His ordinary providence maketh use of means, yet is free to work without, above, and against them at His pleasure.
10.2
Of Effectual Calling
This effectual call is of God’s free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man, who is …
11.3
Of Justification
… Father for them; and His obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead; and both freely, not for anything in them; their justification is only of free grace; that both …
15.3
Of Repentance unto Life
… sin, or any cause of the pardon thereof, which is the act of God’s free grace in Christ; yet is it of such necessity to all sinners, that none …
20.2
Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men, which are in any thing contrary to …
23.4
Of the Civil Magistrate
… difference in religion, doth not make void the magistrates’ just and legal authority, nor free the people from their due obedience to them: from which ecclesiastical persons are not …