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"If the natural man has a free will to believe the gospel, then why does he need grace? If his will is naturally free then it would do away with the need for grace altogether...To teach that the natural man has a free will overthrows the gospel ... it is precisely because man is in bondage that he needs Christ to set him free." (John 8:34, 36)
- John Hendryx

"Free-will or Free-grace?; The Bible says that men are born again, not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (John 1:13); that it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy (Rom 9;16); the work of faith is the operation of God according to the exceeding greatness of his power, who works in man both to will and to do of his own good pleasure." (Phil 2:13)

p>"Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace."
- C. H. Spurgeon

"All the passages in the Holy Scriptures that mention assistance are they that do away with "free-will", and these are countless ... For grace is needed, and the help of grace is given, because "free-will" can do nothing."
- Martin Luther, Bondage of the Will, pg. 270

If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.
- Martin Luther

"...human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty."
- John Calvin

"We are all sinners by nature ,therefore we are held under the yoke of sin . But if the whole man is subject to the dominion of sin , surely the will , which is it's principal seat , must be bound with the closest of chains. And indeed if divine grace were preceded by any will of ours, Paul could not have said that ," it is God that worketh in us to will and to do ' (Phil. 2:13)
- John Calvin

"...we allow that man has choice and that it is self-determined, so that if he does anything evil, it should be imputed to him and to his own voluntary choosing. We do away with coercion and force, because this contradicts the nature of the will and cannot coexist with it. We deny that choice is free, because through man's innate wickedness it is of necessity driven to what is evil and cannot seek anything but evil. And from this it is possible to deduce what a great difference there is between necessity and coercion. For we do not say that man is dragged unwillingly into sinning, but that because his will is corrupt he is held captive under the yoke of sin and therefore of necessity will in an evil way. For where there is bondage, there is necessity. But it makes a great difference whether the bondage is voluntary or coerced. We locate the necessity to sin precisely in corruption of the will, from which follows that it is self-determined.
John Calvin from Bondage and Liberation of the Will, pg. 69-70

"The fact that no man can choose to live a sinless life is proof positive that he has no free will. He is held captive under the yoke of sin and thus he sins willingly and of necessity ... and he cannot do otherwise."
- John Hendryx

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Eleven (11) Reasons to Reject Libertarian Free Will by John Hendryx - A critique of "Why I am not a Calvinist" by Jerry Walls and Joseph Dongellicon
Martin Luther Quotes on the Bondage of the Will Martin Luthericon
DE SERVO ARBITRIO: On the Bondage of the Will (.pdf) Martin Luthericon
Augustine's Doctrine of the Bondage of the Will Monergism.comicon
Outlines of Theology: Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism & Augustinianism A. A. Hodgeicon
Human Inability Charles Spurgeon, 1858icon
The Canons of the Council of Orange (529 AD) Council of Orangeicon
Free Will Synergism Vs. Free Grace Monergism John Hendryxicon
Free Will vs. Free Will? John Hendryxicon
The Pelagian Captivity of the Church By R. C. Sproulicon
Doctrine of Man's Impotence A.W. Pinkicon
God's Sovereignty and Human Responsibility John Hendryxicon
Augustine & The Pelagian Controversy B. B. Warfieldicon
Are God's Precepts "The Measure of our Strength"? John Calvinicon
The Manifesto of the Reformation - Luther vs. Erasmus on Free Will (.pdf) Lee Gatissicon
God Sovereign and Man Free N.L. Rice - The Doctrine of Divine Foreordination and Man's Free Agencyicon
Does God Elect Persons Based on Their Foreseen Faith? John Hendryxicon
Free Grace or Free Will John Hendryx Responds to Visitor Struggling with Free Will Vs. Free Graceicon
What Do We Mean When We Declare that Human Beings Have No Free Will? John Hendryxicon
The Manifesto of the Reformation Luther vs. Erasmus on Free Will (.pdf) Lee Gatissicon
God's Will and Man's Will Charles Spurgeonicon
Does the Bible Teach Predestination & Free Will? John Hendryxicon
Arminianism: The Golden Idol of Freewill Augustus Toplady (1740-1778)icon
God's Will, Man's Will and Free Will (.pdf) Ernest Reisinger (book)icon
Free Will - A Slave Charles Spurgeonicon
13 Things a Lost Person Cannot Do Curtis A. Pughicon
Man's Will - Free Yet Bound Walter Chantryicon
Inability - Fallen Human Beings are Both Free and Enslaved J.I. Packericon
Arminianism Restrictive of Divine Free Agency Rev. Samuel J. Cassellsicon
Arguments In Support of Free Will Refuted John Calvin - Institutes (2.5)icon
Man’s Free Will or Impotency and the Punishment Due Upon Sin Wilhelmus à Brakelicon
Do God's Commands Imply the Ability to Obey? Quotes from Martin Luthericon
Can God Know Everything and Still Give us Free Will? Kevin DeYoungicon
Foreknowledge and the Free Will of Men John Frameicon
Free Will and Man’s Four-fold State, Part I Ernest C. Reisingericon
Grace Creates a Truly Free Will St. Augustineicon
Short Excerpt from Intro to Luther's Bondage of the Will J. I. Packericon
Against Free Will (Quotes) Covenant Protestant Reformed Church of Northern Irelandicon
Luther's The Bondage of the Will versus Erasmus' On the Freedom of the Will Martyn McGeownicon
Free Grace Versus Free Will (eBook) W. E. Best - Available in HTML, Kindle .mobi and ePub formatsicon
Our Change of Masters (.pdf) C. H. Spurgeonicon
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