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. IV. A Description of the Justification of the Wicked, and the Man∣ner thereof in a State of Grace, insinuated.

TOwards the Justification of the Wicked, it is necessary that there be a Translation from that state in which a man was born the Son of the first Adam, to a state of Grace and Adoption of Sons of God through the second Page  21Adam, Jesus Christ our Saviour: Which Translation now after the promulgati∣on of the Gospel, cannot be made but by the Laver of Regeneration, or the earnest desire of the party to be Baptiz'd: As it is written; Unless a man be born again of Water and of the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.