Madan on Article X: Of Free-Will
Martin Madan, 1772
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Article X. Of Free-Will
The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God: Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Text: Book of Common Prayer (1662)
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t Rom, viii. 8. They that are in the Flesh can- not please Gop. 2 Cor. iii. 5. We are not suf— ficient of ourselves to think any thing, as of our- selves, but our Sufficiency is of God, xv.
Without me ye can do nothing. Nu. v. 6. When we were yet without Strength, in due Time Christ died for the Ungodly.
- Eph. ii. 1. You hath he quickened who were dead in Trespasses and Sins. P/. cxliv. 1. Blessed be the Lord my Strength, which teacheth m Hands to war, and my Fingers to fight, %u vi. 44. No Man can come unto me, except the Fa- ther which hath sent me draw him. Cant. i. 4. Draw me, we will run after thee, 1 Cor. ii. 14. The natural Man receiveth not the Things of the Spirit of God, for they are Foolishness unto him, neither can he know 2 3 they are spiri⸗ tually discerned. Phil. i It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his own good Pleasure.
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