Chapter 3 — Third and Fourth Head of Doctrine: Of the Corruption of Man, His Conversion to God, and the Manner Thereof
Section 3. Article 3: Total Inability. Therefore, all people are conceived in sin and are born children of wrath, unfit for any saving good, inclined to evil, dead in their sins, and slaves to sin. Without the grace of the regenerating Holy Spirit they are neither willing nor able to return to God, to reform their distorted nature, or even to dispose themselves to such reform.