The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith Paragraph 9.4

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When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, He frees 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 corruptions, he does not perfectly, nor only will, that which is good, but does also will that which is evil.⁠³⁠

expand_more [1] Colossians 1:13; John 8:36

expand_more [2] Philippians 2:13

expand_more [3] Romans 7:15, 18–19, 21, 23

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Man, having been translated into a state of grace:

Is made able to will perfectly and only to do good

Is made able to will perfectly to do good, but not only to do good

Is made able to will to do good, but not perfectly or only to do good

Is unable to will to do good

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