CD Third and Fourth Heads Art. IV

*Of the Corruption of Man, his Conversion to God, and the Manner thereof*

There remain, however, in man since the fall, the glimmerings of natural light, whereby he retains some knowledge of God, of natural things, and of the difference between good and evil, and discovers some regard for virtue, good order in society, and for maintaining an orderly external deportment. But so far is this light of nature from being sufficient to bring him to a saving knowledge of God, and to true conversion, that he is incapable of using it aright even in things natural and civil. Nay farther, this light, such as it is, man in various ways renders wholly polluted, and holds it [back] in unrighteousness; by doing which he becomes inexcusable before God.

Edges

• part_of source-manifest/cd
• precedes confession-article/cd-34-05

Source

• source-manifest/cd — Canons of Dort (1619) (PD, Schaff/RPDC 1840)
• evidence_grade: D_doctrinal_textbook