The canons and decrees of the Council of Trent celebrated under Paul III, Julius III, and Pius IV, Bishops of Rome
Council of Trent
CHAP. III. Who are Justified by Christ.

INdeed, though he died for all, yet all do not receive the benefit of his Death, but they only, to whom the merit of his passion is communicated: For, as indeed men had not been born in sin, had they not been the seed of Adam, for being his posterity, his guilt became their's; so, unless they be born again in Christ, they shall not be saved, seeing that regeneration of his meer grace is at∣tributed to them through the merit of his passion, that they may be saved: For which great benefit the Apostle does exhort us to give thanks to God always, who has made us worthy of a part with the Saints in Heaven, and snatch'd us from the power of Darkness, and Translated us into the Kingdom of his Beloved Son, in whom we have Redemption and Remission of sins.