_The Confutatio Pontificia:
         In Reference To The Matters Presented To His Imperial Majesty
          By The Elector Of Saxony And Some Princes And States Of The
            Holy Roman Empire, On The Subject And Concerning Causes
           Pertaining To The Christian Orthodox Faith, The Following
                Christian Reply Can Be Given._ August 3, 1530.
                              Edited by J.M. Reu.
                                 Published in
              _The Augsburg Confession, A Collection of Sources._
     (Fort Wayne, IN: Concordia Theological Seminary Press), pp. 349-383.


                                To Article II.

 In the second article we approve their Confession, in common with the Catholic
 Church, that the fault of origin is truly sin, condemning and bringing eternal
 death upon those who are not born again by baptism and the Holy Ghost. For in
 this they properly condemn the Pelagians, both modern and ancient, who have
 been long since condemned by the Church. But the declaration of the article,
 that Original Sin is that men are born without the fear of God and without
 trust in God, is to be entirely rejected, since it is manifest to every
 Christian that to be without the fear of God and without trust in God is
 rather the actual guilt of an adult than the offence of a recently-born
 infant, which does not possess as yet the full use of reason, as the Lord says
 "Your children which had no knowledge between good and evil," Deut 1:39.
 Moreover, the declaration is also rejected whereby they call the fault of
 origin concupiscence, if they mean thereby that concupiscence is a sin that
 remains sin in a child even after baptism. For the Apostolic See has already
 condemned two articles of Martin Luther concerning sin remaining in a child
 after baptism, and concerning the fomes of sin hindering a soul from entering
 the kingdom of heaven. But if, according to the opinion of St Augustine, they
 call the vice of origin concupiscence, which in baptism ceases to be sin, this
 ought to be accepted, since indeed according to the declaration of St. Paul,
 we are all born children of wrath (Eph. 2:3), and in Adam we all have sinned
 (Rom.5:12).

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