Jackson on Article XVI: Of Sin after Baptism
Bernard C. Jackson, 1900
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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)
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This, as the last clause indicates, is directed against two errors, both of which were taught by Anabaptists, viz., (1) That those who are re- generate cannot sin and fall from grace, (2) That those who sin after Baptism cannot be restored though they truly repent.
The Article begins with a guarded and nega- tive statement concerning sin against the Holy Ghost—‘ Not every deadly sin willingly com- mitted after Baptism is sin against the Holy Ghost, and unpardonable.’’
From this follows, first the practical direction ‘° Wherefore the grant (lit. place) of repentance is not to be denied to such as fall into sin after Baptism ”’ ; and then the doctrinal statement that (a) it is possible for the regenerate man ,to fall into sin, and (b) it is possible for him after such fall to repent and be forgiven. On this difficult subject the words of Heb. vi., 4-6 should be care- fully studied, specially noting the use of the present tenses, ‘‘ While (R.V. Marg.) they crucify … and put to an open shame.”’
ArticLe XVII. Or PREDESTINATION AND
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