Yet the sinner's omission of faith and love is free and punishable
The Protestants do not therefore deny that when a sinner fails to perform the acts of faith, hope and charity and the other virtues commanded him in the Gospel, the omission is free and so deserves penalty and punishment.
According to the Reformed, this is because man, though without grace, still knowingly and willingly leaves undone the acts God prescribes. No outside force or physical obstacle keeps him from performing them, only the perverse disposition of his own will, which does not remove his native freedom in acting.
To this may be added that, according to the doctors of the Augsburg Confession, the grace of God needed to do good is in some way available to all men, and God is ready to give it to each and every one if they do what lies in them.
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XXII. Propterea tamen non negant Protestantes quum peccator omittit actus fidei, spei, & charitatis, aliarumque virtutum quae in Evangelio ipsi praecipiuntur, omissionem istam liberam esse, adeoque poena & supplicio dignam: idque, juxta Reformatos, quoniam homo, utut gratia destitutus, sciens tamen & volens actus a Deo praescriptos omittit: nec ulla vi externa, aut impedimento Physico prohibetur, quominus iis defungatur, sed solum prava voluntatis propriae dispositione, quae nativam ejus in agendo libertatem non tollit. Quibus addi potest, juxta Confessionis Augustanae Doctores, gratiam Dei ad bene agendum necessariam omnibus hominibus quodammodo praesto esse, & Deum paratum esse illam omnibus & singulis conferre, si fecerint quod in ipsis est.