Canon 2: “Likewise it seemed good that
whosoever denies that infants
newly from their mother's wombs should
be baptized, or says that baptism
is for remission of sins, but that
they infants derive from Adam no original
sin, which needs to be removed by the
layer of regeneration, from whence
the conclusion follows, that in them
the form of baptism for the remission
of sins, is to be understood as false
and not true, let him be anathema.”
“For no otherwise can be understood
what the Apostle says, 'By one man
sin is come into the world, and death
through sin, and so death passed
upon all men in that all have sinned'
(Romans 5.12), than the Catholic
Church everywhere diffused has always
understood it. For on account
of this rule of faith even infants,
who could have committed as yet no sin
themselves, therefore are truly
baptized for the remission of sins, in order
that what in them is the result of
generation may be cleansed by
regeneration.”
