Madan on Article XV: Of Christ alone without Sin

Martin Madan, 1772

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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)

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on Him the Seed of Abraham. Ver. 17. Where- fore in all Things it behoved him to be made like unto his Brethren.

John Xiv. 30. The Prince of this World com- eth and hath nothing in me. 1 Pet. ii. 22. Who did no Sin, neither was Guile found in his Mouth. 1 John iii. 5. In Him is no Sin.

John i. 29. Behold the Lamb of Gon, which taketh away the Sin of the World. 1 Pet. i. 18. Ye know that ye were not redeemed with cor- ruptible Things, &c. but with the precious Blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without Blemish and without Spot. Heb, ix. 14. How much more shall the Blood of Christ, who through the Eter— nal Spirit offered himself without Spot to Gop, purge your Conscience from dead Works to serve the living Gon? Ver. 26. Now once in the End of the World hath he appeared to put away Sin by the Sacrihce of himself.

Fames iii. 2. In many Things we offend all. Eccl. vii. 20. There is not a just Man upon Earth that doeth Good and sinneth not.

I John i. 8. If we say that we have no Sin, we deceive ourselves, and the Truth is not in us.—/er, 10. If we say that we have not sin-

ned, we make Him a Liar, and his Word is not in us.

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