tions, impious and diabolical incantations, divinations, casting of lots, nay, even hereafter defamatory libels; [the synod] commands and enjoins, for the doing away with this kind of irreverence and contempt, and that no one may hereafter dare in any manner to apply the words of sacred Scripture to these and such like purposes; that all men of this description, profaners and violators of the word of God, be restrained by the bishops by the penalties of law and of their own appointment.
INDICTION OF THE NEXT SESSION.
Likewise, this sacred and holy synod resolves and decrees, that the next ensuing session be held and celebrated on the Thursday after the next most sacred festival of Pentecost.
SESSION THE FIFTH.
Celebrated on the seventeenth day of the month of June, 1546.
DECREE CONCERNING ORIGINAL SIN.
That our Catholic faith, without which it is impossible to please God,[1] may, errors being cleared away, continue in its own perfect and undefiled integrity, and that the Christian people may not be carried about with every wind of doctrine;[2] whereas that old serpent,[3] the perpetual enemy of the human race, amongst the very many evils by which the Church of God is in these our times disturbed, has also stirred up not only new, but even old dissensions touching original sin, and the remedy thereof; the sacred and holy, œcumenical and general Synod of Trent, lawfully assembled in the Holy Ghost, the three same legates of the Apostolic See presiding therein,—wishing now to come to the recalling of the erring, and the confirming of the wavering, following the testimonies of the sacred Scriptures, and of the holy fathers, and of the most approved councils, and the judgment and consent of the Church itself, ordains, confesses, and declares these things touching the said original sin:—
1. If any one does not confess that the first man, Adam, when he had transgressed the commandment of God in Para-
