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will is moved and wrought upon by God, it does in no respect co-operate and consent to divine influence, and calling so as to dispose and prepare him to obtain the grace of justification; or that he cannot refuse if he would, but is like a lifeless thing, altogether inert, and merely passive: let him be accursed.

"5. Whoever shall affirm, that the free will of man has been lost and extinct since the fall of Adam; or that it exists only in name, or rather as a name without substance; or that it is a fiction, introduced by Satan into the church: let him be accursed.

"6. Whoever shall affirm, that it is not in the power of man to commit sin of himself, but that evil as well as good works are wrought by God, not only permissively, but really, as his own act; so that the treachery of Judas was no less his work than the calling of Paul: let him be accursed.

"7. Whoever shall affirm, that all works done before justification, in whatever way performed, are actually sins, and deserve God's hatred; or that the more earnestly a man labours to dispose himself for grace, he does but sin the more: let him be accursed.

"8. Whoever shall affirm, that the fear of hell, under the influence of which we flee to the mercy of God, sorrowing for sin and abstaining therefrom, is itself sin, or makes sinners worse: let him be accursed.

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9. Whoever shall affirm, that the ungodly is justified by faith only, so that it is to be understood that nothing else is to be required, to co-operate therewith in order to obtain justification; and that it is on no account necessary that he should prepare

and dispose himself by the effect of his own will : let him be accursed.

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10. Whoever shall affirm, that men are justified without the righteousness of Christ, by which he has merited for us; or that they are thereby formally just: let him be accursed.

"11. Whoever shall affirm, that men are justified solely by the imputation of the righteousness of Christ, or the remission of sin, to the exclusion of grace and charity, which is shed abroad in their hearts, and inheres in them; or that the grace by which we are justified is only the favour of God: let him be accursed.

"12. Whoever shall affirm, that justifying faith is nothing else than confidence in the divine mercy, by which sins are forgiven for Christ's sake; or that it is that confidence only by which we are justified: let him be accursed.

.66 13. Whoever shall affirm, that in order to obtain the forgiveness of sin it is necessary in all cases that the individual should firmly believe, without any doubt concerning his own infirmity and corruption, that his sins are forgiven: let him be accursed.

"14. Whoever shall affirm, that a man is forgiven and justified, because he stedfastly believes that he is forgiven and justified; or that no one is truly justified unless he believes himself to be so; or that it is by such faith only that pardon and justification are obtained: let him be accursed.

15. Whoever shall affirm, that the faith of a renewed and justified man requires him to believe that he is certainly one of the predestinate: let him be accursed.

16. Whoever shall affirm, that he shall most

surély, certainly, and infallibly enjoy the great gift. of perseverance unto the end; unless he hath learned the same by special revelation: let him be accursed.

"17. Whoever shall affirm, that the grace of justification belongs only to those who are predestinated to life; and that all others, though they are called, are not called to receive grace, being by the ordinance of God predestinated to misery: let him be accursed.

"18. Whoever shall affirm, that it is impossible even for a justified man, living in a state of grace, to keep the commandments of God: let him be accursed.

"19. Whoever shall affirm, that the gospel contains no positive command but to believe: and that all the rest are indifferent, being neither enjoined nor prohibited, but free; or that the ten commandments are not binding upon Christians: let him be accursed.

"20. Whoever shall affirm, that a justified man, how perfect soever, is not bound to keep the commandments of God and the church, but only to believe; as if the gospel were a naked absolute promise of eternal life, without the condition of keeping the commandments: let him be accursed.

"21. Whoever shall affirm, that Christ Jesus was given by God to men as a Redeemer to be trusted in, but not also as a Lawgiver to be obeyed: let him be accursed.

"22. Whoever shall affirm, that a justified man is able to persevere in righteousness received without the especial help of God; or with that help he cannot let him be accursed.

"23. Whoever shall affirm, that a man once justified cannot fall into sin any more, nor lose grace, --and therefore that he who falls into sin never was truly justified; or, on the other hand, that he is able, all his life long, to avoid all sins, such as are venial and that without a special privilege from God, such as the church believes was granted to the blessed Virgin let him be accursed, in

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"24. Whoever shall affirm, that justification received is not preserved, and even increased, in the sight of God, by good works; but that works are only the fruits and evidences of justification re ceived, and not the causes of its increase: let him be accursed.

"25. Whoever shall affirm, that a righteous man sins in every good work, at least venially; or, which is yet more intolerable, mortally; and that he there. fore deserves eternal punishment, and only for this - reason is not condemned, that God does not im pute his works to condemnation: let him be ac cursed.

26. Whoever shall affirm, that the righteous ought not to expect and hope for everlasting reward from God for their good works, which are wrought in God, through his mercy and the merits of Jesus Christ, if they persevere to the end in well-doing and observance of the divine commandments: let him be accursed.

"27. Whoever shall affirm, that there is no mortal sin except infidelity, or that grace once received cannot be lost by any other sin than infidelity, however great and enormous : let him be accursed.

"28. Whoever shall affirm, that when grace is lost by sin, faith is always lost in the same time; or

that the faith which remains is not true faith, being confessedly inactive, or that he who has faith without charity is not a Christian: let him be accursed.

"29. Whoever shall affirm, that he who has fallen after baptism cannot by the grace of God rise again; or that if he can, it is possible for him to recover his lost righteousness by faith only, without the sacrament of penance, which the holy Roman and universal church, instructed by Christ the Lord and his Apostles, has to this day professed, kept, and taught: let him be accursed.

"30. Whoever shall affirm, that when the grace of justification is received, the offence of the penitent sinner is so forgiven, and the sentence of eter.nal punishment reversed, that there remains no temporal punishment to be endured, before his entrance into the kingdom of heaven, either in this world or in the future state, in purgatory: let him be accursed,

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"31. Whoever shall affirm, that a righteous man sins, if he performs good works with a view to the everlasting reward: let him be accursed.

“32. Whoever shall affirm, that the good works of a justified man are in such sense the gifts of God, that they are not also his worthy merits; or that he, being justified by his good works, which are wrought by him through the grace of God, and the merits of Jesus Christ, of whom he is a living member, does not really deserve increase of grace, eternal life, the enjoyment of that eternal life if he dies in a state of grace, and even an increase of glory: let him be accursed

"33. Whoever shall affirm, that the Catholic doctrine of justification, as stated by the holy coun

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