Canon 6. “If anyone says that God has mercy upon us when, apart from
his grace,
we believe, will, desire, strive, labor, pray, watch, study, seek, ask, or knock, but does not confess that it is
by the infusion and inspiration of the Holy Spirit within us that we have the
faith, the will, or the strength to do all these things as we ought; or if anyone
makes the assistance of grace depend on the humility or obedience of man and does not agree
that it is a gift of grace itself that we are obedient and humble, he
contradicts the Apostle who says, ‘What have you that you did not receive?’ (1
Corinthians 4:7), and, ‘But by the grace of God I am what I am’ (1
Corinthians 15:10).”
