3. [27.] Although Christ died for all, yet all do not receive the benefit of His death, but those only unto whom the merit of His passion is communicated. So, if they were not born in Christ, they never would be justified; seeing that, in that new birth, there is bestowed upon them, through the merit of His passion, the grace whereby they are made just. (Sess. VI., Jan. 13, 1547, Chap. 3.)
[28.] That the justification of the impious is a transference from that state wherein man is born a child of the first Adam, to the state of grace, and of the adoption of the sons of God through the second Adam, Jesus Christ, our Savior. And this transference is effected by the laver of regeneration or baptism, and its vow. (Ibid., Chap. 4.)
[29.] Justification is not only remission of sins, but also is sanctification and renovation of the interior man by the voluntary reception of grace and gifts, whence man from unjust becomes just, and from an enemy a friend, and an heir according to the hope of eternal life. (Ibid., Chap. 7.)
[30.] Although no one can be just, but he to whom the merits of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ are communicated, yet this is done in this justification of the impious, when by the merit of that same most holy passion, the charity of God is poured forth by the Holy Spirit, in the hearts of those who are justified, and is inherent therein; whence, man, through Jesus Christ, in whom he is ingrafted, receives, in the said justification, together with the remission of sins, all these [gifts] infused at once, faith, hope and charity. For faith, unless hope and charity are added thereto, neither unites man perfectly with Christ, nor makes him a living member of his body. (Chap. 7, sec. 3.)
[31.] For which reason it is said that faith without works is dead and profitless; faith worketh by charity; whence also they immediately hear the Word of Christ; "if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments"; thus receiving true and Christian justice, they are bidden immediately on being born again, to preserve it pure and spotless, as the first robe given them through Jesus Christ in lieu of that which Adam, by his disobedience, lost for himself and for us, that so they may bear it before the judgment seat of our Lord Jesus Christ, and may have eternal life. (Ibid., Chap. 7, sec. 4.)
[32.] That man is justified by works, and not by faith only. (Ibid., Chap. 10.)
[33.] That through Jesus Christ, they have access to grace. (Ibid., Chap 11.)
[34.] If anyone saith, that the just ought not, for their good works done in God, to expect and hope for an eternal recompense from God, through His mercy and the merit of Jesus Christ, if they persevere even to the end in well doing and in keeping the Divine commandments; let him be accursed. (Ibid., Canon 26.)
[35.] If anyone saith, that by the said sacraments of the New Law grace is not conferred through the act performed, but that faith alone in the Divine promise suffices for the obtaining of grace; let him be accursed. (Sess. VII., Canon 8, concerning the Sacraments.)