you probably do jive with Calvin but don't realize it. Let's see...
"Bernard, agreeing with Augustine, writes,
In the Animal world, man alone is free. Because sin has intervened, he suffers a kind of violence, but this comes from his will, not from nature, so that it does not deprive him of innate freedom.
What is voluntary must be free. Then he adds:
In some strange and evil manner, the will itself, undermined by sin, imposes a necessity upon itself. But the necessity, being voluntary, cannot excuse the will, and the will, being led astray, cannot escape the necessity.
The necessity is as it were voluntary. Later he says:
We are under a yoke of voluntary bondage [to sin]. As regards bondage, we are miserable, and as regards will, inexcusable, because the will, when it was free [with Adam] made itself the slave of sin.
Finally he concludes:
So the soul, in some strange and evil way, is held under this kind of voluntary yet sadly free necessity, both slave and free. It is enslaved because of the necessity, and free because it is a will. What is stranger and sadder still , it is guilty because free, and enslaved because guilty, therefore enslaved because free.
So my readers will see that the doctrine i pass on is not new, but one which Augustine set forth with the agreement of all the saints. It was guarded in the monasteries for nearly a thousand years."
Institutes II, 3, v
