Crudelitas Gallica

any free will by which we might prepare ourselves to receive the grace of God, or as if we might cooperate of ourselves with the virtue which is donated to us by the Holy Spirit.

We confess that Jesus Christ was given to us by the infinite goodness of God, as a remedy by which we might be recalled from death to life, and receive whatever was lost to us in Adam. And therefore [we confess] that He, who is the eternal Wisdom of God the Father, and one with Him in essence, took on our flesh, so that He is God and man in one person. Therefore we detest all heresies contrary to this principle, such as those of Marcion, Manes, Nestorius, Eutyches, and the like, along with the deliriums which Servetus and Schwenckfeld wished to restore.

Regarding the manner of obtaining salvation, we confess that Jesus Christ, by His death and resurrection, most completely accomplished whatever was required to erase our offenses, so that He might reconcile us to God the Father, and that He conquered death and Satan so that we might perceive the fruit of His victory. Finally, [we confess] that He received the Holy Spirit without measure, so that He might distribute from it to each of His own in such measure as it pleased Him.

Therefore, we confess that all our justice, by which we are pleasing to God, and in which alone we ought to rest entirely, is placed in the remission of sins, which He acquired for us by washing us with His blood, and through that unique sacrifice by which He appeased the anger of God moved against us. And we say that the pride of those is intolerable who attribute to themselves even the slightest bit of merit, in which even a droplet of the hope of salvation might reside.