Chapter IX - Of Free Will
III. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation:
[4] so as, a natural man, being altogether averse from that good,
[5] and dead in sin,
[6] is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.
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IV. When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he frees him from his natural bondage under sin;
[8] and, by his grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good;
[9] yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he does not perfectly, or only, will that which is good, but does also will that which is evil.
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Chapter XI - Of Justification
I. Those whom God effectually calls, he also freely justifies;
[1] not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; nor by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness; but by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto them,
[2] they receiving and resting on Him and his righteousness by faith; which faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God.
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VI. The justification of believers under the Old Testament was, in all these respects, one and the same with the justification of believers under the New Testament.
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Chapter XIV - Of Saving Faith
I. The grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls,
[1] is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts,
[2] and is ordinarily wrought by the ministry of the Word,
[3] by which also, and by the administration of the sacraments, and prayer, it is increased and strengthened.
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