The 1689 Confession's chapter on free will presents the human will through a definition applicable to all rational creatures and then traces its changing moral condition through the states of innocence, sin, grace, and glory.

The 1689 London Baptist Confession chapter 9, 'Of Free Will,' is examined through its four-paragraph structure, which moves from a definition of the will that applies to all rational creatures, through the progressive states of humanity in relation to sin and grace. The chapter distinguishes the natural faculty of free will from the moral bondage introduced by the fall, the sovereign liberation effected by regenerating grace, and the final confirmation of the redeemed will in glory. Understanding these distinctions guards against both Pelagian overconfidence in human ability and fatalist despair regarding the will's genuine activity in salvation.

• Anthropology
• Hamartiology
• Soteriology