Exposition of the Canons, Third and Fourth Heads of Doctrine, Of the Corruption of Man, His Conversion to God, and the Manner Thereof: Rejection of Errors, Article 2

REJECTION OF ERRORS REJECTION OF ERRORS Article 2. Who teach: That the spiritual gifts, or the good qualities and virtues, such as: goodness, holiness, righteousness, could not belong to the will of man when he was first created, and that these, therefore, could not have been separated therefrom in the fall. For such is contrary to the description of the image of God; which the Apostle gives in Eph. 4:24, where he declares that it consists in righteousness and holiness, which undoubtedly...