...Calvinists are misunderstood. — In the mean while, let the words of our article express them : ' We have no power to do good works, ' pleasant and...will, and working with us, when we have ' that good will.'2 — As to other works, not ' pleasant ' and acceptable to God,' we believe, that carnal men...

...subscribes. How does this agree with the doctrine of perfection, or the basis of the perfect band? ' The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such,...strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God,' &c. This article the Arminian subscribes. How does this agree with free-will and human power to choose...

...forced construction have been made to apply to it(m), In the Article upon Free-will, it is said, •' The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such,...strength and good works, to faith and calling upon God;" that is, A man cannot, by his own natural faculties and unassisted exertions, so counteract and correct...

...to do good works, pleasant and ac' ccptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ pre' venting us, that we may have a good will, and working with ' us when we have that good will.' ' It is God that worketli ' in us both the will and the deed.' The church addresses God as ' the author...

...any special instance ; that 'is, no one commits a sin, but by his own unconstrained choice : yet ' The condition of man after the fall of * Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare r himself, by his own natural strength and good works, * to faith and calling upon God : wherefore...

...PUBLICATION S -rinistic doctrine, en this part of the question, is fully expressed in the 10th Article. 'The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is...working with us, when we have that good will.' The intelligent reader would scarcely fail to observe, in the passage just cited from the Bishop's book,...

...directions." p. 62. Here again we fifid great dissonance between the church and the bishop. CHURCH OP ENGLAND. The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such,...grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have agood will; and working with us, when we have that good will. — Art. 10. Because through the weakness...

...person born into this world, it deservetb God's wrath and damnation." ART. X. OfFree-WilL . . .' . " The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such,...strength and good works to faith and calling upon God. we have no: power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ...

...the world with him a corruption which renders him liable to God's wrath and eternal damnation—that the condition of man after the fall of Adam is such,...himself by his own natural strength and good works, —that we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord Jesus Christ by faith...

...bestow it arbitrarily. While commenting on the Church Article on Free Will, which states that man " cannot turn and prepare himself by his own natural...strength and good works, to faith and calling upon God," he observes respecting true faith, as contradistinguished from ' a bare ' belief in the divine mission...