such interpretations should never be published. Let those who shall act contrary to this decree, be denounced by the ordinaries, and punished with the penalties rightly appointed.

audeat ; etiamsi hujusmodi interpretationes nullo unquam tempore in lucem edendæ forent. Qui contravenerint, per ordinarios declarentur, et pœnis a jure statutis puniantur.-Conc. xiv. 747.

(Here follows a decree concerning printers, confirming that of the fifth council of Lateran, given above, page 154.)

SESSION V., A.D. 1546.

DECREE CONCERNING ORIGINAL SIN.

If any one does not confess that the first man Adam, when he transgressed the command of God in Paradise, immediately lost the holiness and righteousness in which he had been formed, and by that miscarriage incurred the anger and indignation of God, and thus death also, which God before had threatened against him, and together with death captivity under the power of him that hath the power of death, that is, the Devil; and that the whole Adam, through this transgression, was changed for the worse both as regards soul and body; let him be accursed.

Sessio V.-De Peccato Originali.

Si quis non confitetur, primum hominem Adam, cum mandatum Dei in paradiso fuisset transgressus, statim sanctitatem, et justitiam, in qua constitutus fuerat, amisisse, incurrisseque per offensam prævaricationis hujusmodi iram et indignationem Dei, atque ideo mortem, quam antea illi comminatus fuerat Deus, et cum morte captivitatem sub ejus potestate qui mortis deinde habuit imperium, hoc est, diaboli, totumque Adam, per illam prævaricationis offensam, secundum corpus et animam, in deterius commutatum fuisse; anathema sit.

If any one asserts that Adam's sin injured himself alone, and not his posterity; and that the holiness and righteousness acceptable to God, which he lost, he lost for himself, and not also for us; or that he being stained with the sin of disobedience, transmitted death and corporal penalties only upon all the human race, and not also sin which is the death of the soul; let him be accursed: since he contradicts the Apostle, who says, "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned."

If any one asserts that this sin of Adam, which originally is one, and being transmitted by propagation and not by imitation, is in all men, being peculiar to every individual, is removed by the power of human nature, or by any other remedy than by the merit of the only mediator our Lord Jesus Christ, who has

Si quis Adæ prævaricationem sibi soli, et non ejus propagini, asserit nocuisse; et acceptam a Deo sanctitatem et justitiam, quam perdidit, sibi soli, et non nobis etiam eum perdidisse; aut inquinatum illum per inobedientiæ peccatum mortem et pœnas corporis tantum in omne genus humanum transfudisse, non autem et peccatum quod mors est animæ ; anathema sit: cum contradicat Apostolo dicenti, "Per unum hominem peccatum intravit in mundum, et per peccatum mors; et ita in omnes homines mors pertransiit, in quo omnes peccaverunt."

Si quis hoc Adæ peccatum, quod origine unum est, et propagatione non imitatione transfusum, omnibus inest, unicuique proprium, vel per humanæ naturæ vires, vel per aliud remedium asserit tolli, quam per meritum unius mediatoris Domini nostri Jesu Christi, qui nos Deo reconciliavit in sanguine suo, factus

reconciled us to God by His blood, being made for us righteousness, sanctification and redemption; or denies that the merit of Jesus Christ is applied both to adults and infants by the Sacrament of Baptism when rightly administered in the forms of the Church; let him be accursed: for there is no other name under heaven given to men whereby we must be saved. Whence that saying, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world:" and that, "Whosoever of you have been baptized, have put on Christ."

If any one denies that infants fresh from their mothers' wombs should be baptized, even though they were born of baptized parents; or shall say that they are baptized indeed for the remission of sins, but that they have derived no original sin from Adam which can need to be expiated by the laver of regeneration in order to the attaining everlasting life; from whence it follows, that in their

nobis justitia, sanctificatio, et redemptio; aut negat ipsum Christi Jesu meritum per Baptismi Sacramentum in forma Ecclesiæ ritè collatum, tam adultis quam parvulis applicari: anathema sit: quia non est aliud nomen sub cœlo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvos fieri. Unde illa vox, "Ecce agnus Dei; ecce qui tollit peccata mundi:" et illa, "Quicumque baptizati estis, Christum induistis."

Si quis parvulos recentes ab uteris matrum baptizandos negat, etiam si fuerint a baptizatis parentibus orti; aut dicit in remissionem quidem peccatorum eos baptizari, sed nihil ex Adam trahere originalis peccati, quod regenerationis lavacro necesse sit expiari ad vitam æternam consequendam ; unde sit consequens,

case the form of baptism for the remission of sins is understood not to be true but false; let him be accursed: since that which the Apostle has said,

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'By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned," is not to be otherwise understood than as the Catholic Church, which is extended everywhere, has understood it. For by reason of this rule of faith, by tradition from the Apostles, even infants, who can as yet have committed no sin themselves, are thus truly baptized for the remission of sins, that the stain which they have contracted by generation, may be cleansed by regeneration. For except a man be born again of water and of the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

If any one denies that the guilt of original sin is remitted by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is conferred in baptism; or asserts that the

ut in eis forma baptismatis in remissionem peccatorum non vera sed falsa intelligatur; anathema sit: quoniam non aliter intelligendum est id, quod dixit Apostolus, "Per unum hominem peccatum intravit in mundum, et per peccatum mors; et ita in omnes homines mors pertransiit, in quo omnes peccaverunt," nisi quemadmodum Ecclesia Catholica, ubique diffusa, semper intellexit. Propter hanc enim regulam fidei ex traditione Apostolorum etiam parvuli, qui nihil peccatorum in semet ipsis adhuc committere potuerunt, ideo in remissionem peccatorum veraciter baptizantur, ut in eis regeneratione mundetur, quod generatione contraxerunt. Nisi enim quis renatus fuerit ex aqua et Spiritu Sancto, non potest introire in regnum Dei.

Si quis per Jesu Christi Domini nostri gratiam, quæ in baptismate confertur, reatum originalis peccati remitti negat; aut