God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is neither forced nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to good or evil.[1]
Section 2
Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which is good and well-pleasing to God,[1] but yet mutably, so that he might fall from it.[2]
Section 3
Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation;[1] so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good,[2] and dead in sin,[3] is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.[4]
Section 4
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin,[1] and by his grace alone enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good;[2] yet so as that, by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.[3]
Section 5
The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone, in the state of glory only.[1]