...clearly by any other rational man than a Calvinist. When we read in the calvinistic formulary, that " Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath WHOLLY...so as a natural man, being altogether averse from good, and dead in sin, is not able by his own strength to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto...

...spiritual good accompaQying salvation, so, as a natural man being altogether averse from that which is good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength,...convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.' " Still further, the language of the sermon, on the subject of conformity to the standards of the church,...

...will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation ; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from good, and dead in sin, is not able by his own strength...convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto;"* when we read such language, can we suppose, that the man who assents to it will come upon us in the...

...transgressions,' and Confession of Faith, cap. ix. 3. ' Man, by his rill into a slate of sin, hath wholly lost ill ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation, so, as a natural rain being altogether averse from that which is good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength,...

...— Buck^s Theol. Diet. Vol. I. p. 110. The Westminster divines employed the following language: " Man by his fall into a state of sin hath wholly lost...convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto." The language of the Catechism of the Reformed Dutch Church is, " Are we then so corrupt that we are...

...sincerely, as I professed to believe, when consenting to the Confession of Faith in my ordination, that " man, by his fall into a state " of sin, hath wholly...a natural man being " altogether averse from that which is good, and dead in sin, " is not able by his own strength, to convert himself, or to " prepare...

...as a natural man he is utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, dead in sin, and is not able by his own strength to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto?" — " In the primitive state of innocence, man was endowed with freedom of the will, which was lost...

...;b but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it.0 III. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, bath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation :d so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good,0 and dead in sin,1' is not able, by...

...inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions," and Confession of Faith, cap. ix. 3. " Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly...as a natural man being altogether averse from that which is good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare...

...that which was good and well pleasing to God ; but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it. III. Man by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost...convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto. IV. When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his...