AE 774 - Christian dogma

AE 774 [3]
. . . as the dogmas they confirm
by the ultimate sense of the Word,
which is the sense of the letter of the Word,
are falsities,
they must needs take their reasonings from the natural person,
for without these it would not be possible to make falsities appear as truths.
But this shall be illustrated by an example.
That life or charity may be separated from faith, they contend
(1) That by Adam's fall a person lost all freedom to do good from himself; and
(2) for this reason a person is in no wise able to fulfill the law; and
(3) without the fulfilling of the law there is no salvation; and
(4) that the Lord came into the world that He might fulfill the law,
and thus His righteousness and merit might be imputed to a person,
and by that imputation a person might be loosed from the yoke of the law
even to the extent that nothing condemns him; and
(5) that a person accepts the imputation of the Lord's merit by faith alone,
and not at all by works.

Tenet (4) is especially dangerous.