Library · The Thirty-Nine Articles
Article X. Of Free-Will
The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such, that he can not turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God. Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to
God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Text from Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, volume 3 (1877), at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Public domain.