Council of Trent
Council of Trent: Session VI, On Justification, Canon VII
Waterworth (1848), Hanover transcription; separate papal documents excluded
On Justification, Canon VII
ON JUSTIFICATION
CANON VII.-If any one saith, that all works done before Justification, in whatsoever way they be done, are truly sins, or merit the hatred of God; or that the more earnestly one strives to dispose himself for grace, the more grievously he sins: let him be anathema.
Translation: J. Waterworth, The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (1848), Hanover Historical Texts Project transcription (1995).
Source: Council of Trent: Session VI (Hanover Historical Texts Project)