Rome and the Protestants agree in words that fallen free choice can do nothing without grace, yet speak differently of it
Our earlier theses established a verbal agreement, at any rate, between Rome's doctors and the Protestants: once nature has fallen, a man's free choice achieves nothing whatever apart from Christ's grace where true piety and the things that of themselves lead to eternal salvation are concerned.
But when they turn to fallen man's free choice as it stands toward saving, spiritual good, Rome's doctors and the Protestants use different language.
Latin
THESIS I. THESIBUS ante editis ostendimus Scholae Romanae Doctores cum Protestantibus in eo, verbis saltem, consentire, quod in statu Naturae Lapsae liberum hominis Arbitrium, sine Gratia Christi nihil omnino possit, in iis quae ad veram pietatem pertinent, & per se aeternae saluti conducunt: & tamen, quum Liberum hominis lapsi Arbitrium consideratur respectu boni salutaris & spiritualis, Doctores Scholae Romanae non eodem modo de illo cum Protestantibus loquuntur.