威敏斯特信條 第九章論自由意志
參考書：「歷代基督教信條」，基督教歷代名著集成系列第廿九冊，基督教文藝出版社，1989年四版。

一。信條內容 -「論自由意志」
A. 神把本性的自由賦予人的意志，這意志既不受強迫趨向善惡，也不受本性絕對的必然所決定的去行善或作惡1。
B. 人在無罪的狀態中，有自由與能力行善，並行神所喜悅的事2，但那所有性是可變的，所以他可能從那狀態中墮落3。
C. 人由於墮落在有罪的狀態中，已經完全喪失一切行任何關乎得救的屬靈善事之意志力4；所以他既是一屬血氣的人，與善完全相反5，又死在罪中6，就不能憑自己的能力去改變自己的心，或預備改變自己的心7。
D. 當神使罪人改心並把他遷移至恩典狀態中時，神就把他從罪惡本性的捆綁中解放出來8，並惟獨借着他的恩典，使他有行屬靈善事的意志與能力9；但因為他尚有殘餘的敗壞，所以他既不完全，也不專一立志向善，他也立志向惡10。
E. 惟獨在榮耀狀態中，人的意志才能有完全與不可改變的自由，以致向善11。

CHAPTER IX
Of Free Will
I. God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that it is neither forced, nor, by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to good, or evil.[205]
II. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom, and power to will and to do that which was good and well pleasing to God;[206] but yet, mutably, so that he might fall from it.[207]
III. Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good 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.[211]
IV. When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin;[212] and, by his grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good;[213] 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.[214]
V. The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone, in the state of glory only.[215]

Reference verses：
　
1. 太十七12；雅一14；申三十19。　
2. 傳七29；創一26。 　
3. 創二16-17，三6。 　　
4. 羅五6，八7；約十五5。 　
5. 羅三10、12。 　
6. 弗二1、5；西二13。 　　
7. 約六44、65；弗二2-5；林前二14；多三3-5。　
8. 西一13；約八34、36。 　
9. 腓二13；羅六18、22。 　　
10. 加五17；羅七15、18-19、21、23。 　
11. 弗四13；西十二23；約壹三2；