I am willing to try my best Mr. Taylor. I don't believe it is by free-will that the children of God are manifested. I believe that it is by grace through faith.
If I may, I would point out that if it were by free-will that men believed, that would mean every person has an equal chance of believing in the Gospel. But that simply isn't true according to scripture. Some can believe and some cannot. Therefore I posted scripture saying that it is not by any person's will that a person receives Christ. Here is some more.
Matthew 13:4-9King James Version (KJV)
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.