41. 7 After we make this change, the faith we then acknowledge and accept is a faith that is truly effective for our salvation — a faith in one God, united to good works.
Survey of Teachings of the New Church＃6
6. Concerning free choice:
(a) Free choice was by no means extinguished by Adam’s sin, but was attenuated in its powers and bent down (Session 6, chapter 1).
(b) If any say that our free choice, once it is moved and stirred by God, does not cooperate at all through giving assent to God’s stirring and calling, in order to dispose and prepare us for obtaining the grace of justification, or that even if it wants to, it cannot refuse its consent, but, like something inanimate, does nothing whatever and is merely passive, let them be anathema (Session 6, canon 4).
