...Side-note (1573): Mans free will can doe nothing but sinne. Cf Article X of the Thirty-Nine Articles: 'The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such,...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...

...original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil." (BCP) Article X. Of Free W ill: "The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such,...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...

...creature he eould do so. But this is just the very central point of the whole question. Man is fallen. He " cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural...strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God." What then is he to do ? Ah ! that is the very thing- that Job's friends cannot tell him. They can talk...

...Free Will" - virtually the same as Article X of the Anglican Thirty-Nine Articles); emphasis added: The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he can not turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and works, to faith and calling upon...