威敏斯特信条 第九章论自由意志
参考书：「历代基督教信条」，基督教历代名著集成系列第廿九册，基督教文艺出版社，1989年四版。

一。信条内容 -「论自由意志」
A. 神把本性的自由赋予人的意志，这意志既不受强迫趋向善恶，也不受本性绝对的必然所决定的去行善或作恶1。
B. 人在无罪的状态中，有自由与能力行善，并行神所喜悦的事2，但那所有性是可变的，所以他可能从那状态中堕落3。
C. 人由于堕落在有罪的状态中，已经完全丧失一切行任何关乎得救的属灵善事之意志力4；所以他既是一属血气的人，与善完全相反5，又死在罪中6，就不能凭自己的能力去改变自己的心，或预备改变自己的心7。
D. 当神使罪人改心并把他迁移至恩典状态中时，神就把他从罪恶本性的捆绑中解放出来8，并惟独借着他的恩典，使他有行属灵善事的意志与能力9；但因为他尚有残余的败坏，所以他既不完全，也不专一立志向善，他也立志向恶10。
E. 惟独在荣耀状态中，人的意志才能有完全与不可改变的自由，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. 传七29；创一26。 　
3. 创二16-17，三6。 　　
4. 罗五6，八7；约十五5。 　
5. 罗三10、12。 　
6. 弗二1、5；西二13。 　　
7. 约六44、65；弗二2-5；林前二14；多三3-5。　
8. 西一13；约八34、36。 　
9. 腓二13；罗六18、22。 　　
10. 加五17；罗七15、18-19、21、23。 　
11. 弗四13；西十二23；约壹三2；