Ellis on Article XVI: Of Sin after Baptism
John Ellis, 1700
Commentaries on Article XVI: 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 16: text, context and Study
Article XVI. Of Sin after Baptism
Not every deadly sin willingly committed after Baptism is sin against the Holy Ghost, and unpardonable. Wherefore the grant of repentance is not to be denied to such as fall into sin after Baptism. After we have received the Holy Ghost, we may depart from grace given, and fall into sin, and by the grace of God we may arise again, and amend our lives. And therefore they are to be condemned, which say, they can no more sin as long as they live here, or deny the place of forgiveness to such as truly repent.
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. A blasphemous, obstinate, and ma- Iicious denying of, and opposition ro a known Truth, is called the Sin against che Holy Ghost. Nor rhar other Sins may nor likewise be commitred against rhe Holy Ghost ; or thar this very Sin is not likewise a Sin against the Father and the Son ; bur that it is commit- red against the proper and immediate Opera- tion of the Holy Spirit. And thus every one fins, when the Truth of the Gospel though clearly and sufficiently avowed) is denyed, is obstinarely, and by voluntary Malice rejected, and violemly opposed. And when in this denyal of an avowed Truth, and hostile Re- filtence, Men obstinartely p2rlist ro the last Day of their Lives : This 1s the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
Obj. 2. It is said, Heb. 6. 4, 5, 6. Toat if Men who have tasted of the Grace of God, fall away,they cannot be renewed ag1in t9 Repentance.
Answ, The Apostle does not here speak of any particular Fall or Lapse, bur of an uni- versal Detection and Falling of, whereby un- = Men ruin themselves, and tread under
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