unless our diseases be recognized. [As Christ says Matt. 9, 12; Mark
2, 17: They that are whole need not a physician.] The entire
righteousness of man is mere hypocrisy [and abomination] before God,
unless we acknowledge that our heart is naturally destitute of love,
fear, and confidence in God [that we are miserable sinners who are in
disgrace with God]. For this reason the prophet Jeremiah, 31, 19,
says: After that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh. Likewise
Ps. 116, 11: I said in my haste, All men are liars, i.e., not
thinking aright concerning God.

Here our adversaries inveigh against Luther also because he wrote
that, "Original sin remains after Baptism." They add that this
article was justly condemned by Leo X. But His Imperial Majesty will
find on this point a manifest slander. For our adversaries know in
what sense Luther intended this remark that original sin remains
after Baptism. He always wrote thus, namely, that Baptism removes
the guilt of original sin, although the material, as they call it, of
the sin, i.e., concupiscence, remains. He also added in reference to
the material that the Holy Ghost, given through Baptism, begins to
mortify the concupiscence, and creates new movements [a new light, a
new sense and spirit] in man. In the same manner, Augustine also
speaks who says: Sin is remitted in Baptism, not in such a manner
that it no longer exists, but so that it is not imputed. Here he
confesses openly that sin exists, i.e., that it remains although it
is not imputed. And this judgment was so agreeable to those who
succeeded him that it was recited also in the decrees. Also against
Julian, Augustine says: The Law, which is in the members, has been
annulled by spiritual regeneration, and remains in the mortal flesh.
It has been annulled because the guilt has been remitted in the
Sacrament, by which believers are born again; but it remains, because