Also they teach that since the fall of Adam all men begotten in the
natural way are born with sin, that is, without the fear of God, without
trust in God, and with concupiscence; and that this disease, or vice
of origin, is truly sin, even now condemning and bringing eternal death
upon those not born again through Baptism and the Holy Ghost.
They Condemn the Pelagians and others who deny that original depravity
is sin, and who, to obscure the glory of Christ’s merit and benefits,
argue that man can be justified before God by his own strength and
reason.
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