Third and Fourth Heads of Doctrine — Article 3
Third and Fourth Heads of Doctrine — Article 3
_Of the corruption of man, his conversion to God, and the manner thereof_
Therefore all men are conceived in sin, and by nature children of wrath, incapable of any saving good, prone to evil, dead in sin, and in bondage thereto; and without the regenerating grace of the Holy Spirit, they are neither able nor willing to return to God, to reform the depravity of their nature, nor to dispose themselves to reformation.
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