_The Confession of Faith:
             Which Was Submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V
                  At the Diet of Augsburg in the Year 1530_.
                        by Philip Melanchthon, 1497-1560
                   Translated by F. Bente and  W. H. T. Dau
                                 Published in:
                   _Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books
                         of the Ev. Lutheran Church_.
           (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921), pp. 37-95.


        Article II: Of Original Sin.  
         
        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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