Chapter 48.—The Guilt of
the First Sin is So Great that It Can Be Washed Away Only in the
Blood of the Mediator, Jesus Christ.
Nevertheless, that one sin,
admitted into a place where such perfect happiness reigned, was of
so heinous a character, that in one man the whole human race was
originally, and as one may say, radically, condemned; and it cannot
be pardoned and blotted out except through the one Mediator between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who only has had power to be so
born as not to need a second birth.