In Germany to the Leipsic Disputation - James Aitken Wylie

power of loving and obeying God, and of effecting
anything that may really avail for his deliverance
and salvation; and he who can do nothing for
himself must owe all to God.
At the other end of the hall, occupying the
pulpit over which was suspended the representation
of St. George and the dragon, rose the tall portly
form of Dr. Eck. With stentorian voice and
animated gestures, he repudiates the doctrine which
has just been put forth by Carlstadt. Eck admits
that man is fallen, that his nature is corrupt, but he
declines to define the extent of that corruption; he
maintains that it is not universal, that his whole
nature is not corrupt, that man has the power of
doing some things that are spiritually good; and
that, prior to the action of God's Spirit upon his
mind and heart, man can do works which have a
certain kind of merit, the merit of congruity even;
and God rewards these good works done in the
man's own strength, with grace by which he is able
to do what still remains of the work of his
salvation.
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