II–III. What is to be considered here: will, free choice, and the loss after the fall
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II.Here are to be considered the will, free choice, and its powers in this state.The will is the rational appetitive power of the soul by which the human tends toward the good apprehended by the intellect.Free choice is the faculty of the will of choosing among objects proposed to it without coercion.
III.Before the fall free choice was flexible toward good and evil, but inclined to the good from original gifts.After the fall free choice indeed remains as to natural and civil acts, but as to spiritual saving good it has lost its powers unless restored by new grace.The fallen human cannot raise himself to true conversion, nor fulfill Gods law spiritually, nor merit eternal life from works (Romans 8:7-8; 1 Corinthians 2:14; John 15:5).
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II. Sunt autem hic consideranda voluntas, liberum arbitrium, et vires eius in hoc statu. Voluntas est potentia animae appetitiva rationalis, qua homo tendit in bonum apprehensum ab intellectu. Liberum arbitrium est facultas voluntatis eligendi inter obiecta sibi proposita absque coactione. III. Ante lapsum liberum arbitrium erat ad bonum et malum flexibile, sed inclinatum ad bonum ex donis originalibus. Post lapsum manet quidem liberum arbitrium quoad actus naturales et civiles, sed quoad spirituale bonum salutare amisit vires, nisi nova gratia restauretur. Homo lapsus non potest seipsum ad veram conversionem erigere, nec legem Dei spiritualiter implere, nec mereri vitam aeternam ex operibus (Rom. 8:7-8; 1 Cor. 2:14; Ioh. 15:5).