Dead Men Don't Come to Life On Their Own

Calvin, in the Institutes, on the fact that ritgheousness comes not from good works from from free grace, 3.12.5:

But the proof will shine even clearer if we set the grace of God directly against the natural condition of man. For Scripture everywhere proclaims that God finds nothing in man to arouse him to do good to him but that he comes first to man in his free generosity. For what can a dead man do to attain life?