...accompanying salvation,208 so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good,209 and dead in sin,210 is not able by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.2" 04. When God converts a sinner and translates him into the state of grace, He freeth him...

...Assembly specifically rejected preparationism: “Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying...convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto”; WCE¿ Chapter 9.4; Schaff, Creeds, 3.623. 31. Rosemary O'Day and Felicity Heal (eds.), Continuity and...

...of transforming himself into a more worthy being. "Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying...altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is notable, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto." There is an "infinite...

...yet mutably, so that he might fall from it. III. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying...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...

...Philadelphian Confession of Faith, 1742, we read, "Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying...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"...

...faculties and parts of soul and body," that man has "lost all ability of will to any spiritual good [and] is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto."32 This bleak doctrine didn't very well fit Beecher's more optimistic view of human capacities,...