Ellis on Article XV: Of Christ alone without Sin
John Ellis, 1700
Commentaries on Article XV: Rogers (1607)Ellis (1660)Burnet (1699)Beveridge (d. 1708)Welchman (1713)Practical Exposition (1716)Veneer (1725)Madan (1772)Hey (1796)Tomline (1799)Wilson (1821)Jones (1849)Trollope (1850)Browne (1850)Forbes (1867)Boultbee (1871)Maclear & Williams (1895)Green (1896)Gibson (1896)Jackson (1900)Bicknell (1919) · Article 15: text, context and Study
Article XV. Of Christ alone without Sin
Christ in the truth of our nature was made like unto us in all things, sin only except, from which he was clearly void, both in his flesh, and in his spirit. He came to be the Lamb without spot, who, by sacrifice of himself once made, should take away the sins of the world, and sin, as Saint John saith, was not in him. But all we the rest, although baptized, and born again in Christ, yet offend in many things; and if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Text: Book of Common Prayer (1662)
Cleaned OCR; [...] marks passages cut for illegibility. See the scan. Text: A Defense of the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England, written in Latin by J. Ellis, S.T.D. (Articulorum XXXIX Ecclesiae Anglicanae Defensio, first published 1660), now done into English (London, 1700). Cleaned OCR from the Internet Archive scan of the Early English Books copy; passages too garbled to recover are marked [...]. Public domain.
Answ, By this we are to understand, that a regenerate Man can very hardly be broughr ro tin, at Jeast ro habitual ones : Or elle, thar a regenerate Man, as such, oras far as he abideth in God , finncth nor : Bur so far as he has a Propenfion ro lin, fo far he departs trom Grace and Regenerarian.
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Thirty Nine Articles. 37 him-that overcometh,Re.3.5.Now only they can be said to overcome, that have absolutely subdued Sin.
Answ. As we are nor rewarded-with the Crown of Glory, till our Race is run, so net- ther can we poor Mortals-expect wholly ro 0- vercome Sin.
Obj. 4. 1 ought to be perfeR, as our Father
which is in Heaven is perfect (says our Savi- our, Mar. 5. 48.) But this could not be, if we be sullied with the leatt Spot of Sin.
Answ. We must nor argue for what we are, from whar we ought to be ; neither is there here supposed any Equality of Holiness - with God the Father, which is absolutely impof- fible ; but we are exhorted to some kind of Likeness with God, which (Sin notwirstand-+ ing) may be consistent enough with some Du- rics of Piery. |
Obj. 5. Christ /aid, John 9g. 3. That neither. the blind Man, nor his Parents did Sin.
Answ. Sin is taken either - generally, in which Sense all Men fin; or else particularly for some horrid and enormous Impiery ; which
1s often the Cause of a remarkable Judgment
of God upon the Person of the Sinner, or up- on his Children and Family : And in this Sense Christ spoke concerning the blind Man:
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