Welchman on Article XV: Of Christ alone without Sin

In the Truth of, &c.] Tho’ Christ was a Man as well as We, yet he was entirely free from Sin. If He had been guilty of any Sin, He would have wanted a Redeemer, as well as We. But what Redeemer could have been found for Him ?- See Heb. ii. 14. As the Children _ Partakers of Flesh and Blood, He also himself likewise took Part of the — wo thro? Death 12 1 75 4 re hin that 2 the Power of Death, that is, the Devil. See also Nowell; Ca- tech. p. 61. Pearson on the Creed, Art, III. Scott’s Chris-

tian Life, Part III. Ch. 7. Sect. 5. i ; Siu

of the Church of Ex OGLAND.

Sin only excepted] See Heb. iv. 15. We have not an Higb- Priest which cannot be touched with the Feeling of our Infir- mities ; but was in all Points tempted like as Ie are, yet without Sin. And John xiv. 30. The Prince of this World cometh, and hath nathing in me. And 1 Pet. ii. 22. Christ did no Sin, neither was Guile found in his Mouth.

dee allo Irenæus. If any Man fay, that the Flesh of 74. 5. c. 14.

« our Lord diftered from ours in this respect, because It “ committed no Sin, neither was Guile tound in His « Mouth, but that we are Sinners; he speaketh rightly.”

Came as a Lamb, &c.] See John i. 2g. The next Day Fohn seth Fesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the Sin of the dVorld.

And Heb. ix. 14, 26. How much more shall the Blood of

Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without Spot to God, purge your Conscience from dead Works, to serve the living God? Noto once, in the End of the World, hath he appeared to put away Sin by the Sacrifice of himself. And

1 John iii. 5. Te know that he was manifested to take away

our Sins; and in him is no Sin. F

All we the ret, &c.] There is no mortal Man that is or ever was perfectly good. Some few indeed are said in the Scripture to be righteous, such, for Initance, as Noah, Jab, and Zacharias; but they were only so comparatively, and according to the free and undeserved Favour of God, who accepts of Sincerity of Mind instead of absolute Perfection.

In many Things, &c.] See James iii. 2. :

If we jay, &c.] See 1 Jon i. 8.

dee also Tertullian. There are some Sins which every 9, p. « Day we are all liable to run into. For who is there that c. 19.

c doth not happen to be angry without Cause, or to let the Fun go down upon his Wrath, or to strike his Neighbour, &« or freely to rail against him, or to swear rashly, or to break the Promises he made in Covenants or Bargains, « or to tell a lye through Bashfulness, or Neceflity ?

See also Nowell: Catech. p. 40, 228. Fervel’s Apol. De- fens. Part II. C. 19. Divis. 1. Masou de Minitt. Ang], L. V. C. 5. Sect. 8. Field of the Church, p. 293.

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