Council of Trent
Council of Trent: Session VII, On Baptism, Canon II
Waterworth (1848), Hanover transcription; separate papal documents excluded
On Baptism, Canon II
ON BAPTISM
CANON II.-If any one saith, that true and natural water is not of necessity for baptism, and, on that account, wrests, to some sort of metaphor, those words of our Lord Jesus Christ; Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost; 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 VII (Hanover Historical Texts Project)