7. The Doctrinals of the Roman Catholics concerning Justification, collected from the Decrees of the Council of Trent, may be summed up and arranged in a Series, as follows The sin of Adam is transfused into the whole human race, whereupon his state and from him the state of all men became perverted and alienated from God, and thus they became enemies and children of wrath. Therefore, God the Father graciously sent His Son to reconcile, expiate, propitiate, make satisfaction, and thus to redeem (mankind), and that by these works He became righteousness. Christ accomplished and fulfilled all this by offering up Himself upon the cross as a sacrifice to God the Father, thus by His passion and His blood. Christ alone has acquired merit, and this, His merit, from grace, is imputed, attributed, applied and transferred to the man who is a recipient thereof, by God the Father through the Holy Spirit; in this way the sin of Adam is removed from man, concupiscence, however, still remaining in him as the kindling point of sin. Justification is the remission of sins, from which a renewal of the interior man takes place, whereby man, from being an enemy, becomes a friend, and from being a child of wrath becomes a child of grace; thus, union with Christ is effected, and the regenerate person becomes a living member of His body.