24 September 2015 A.D. 9th of 39 Articles, “Of Original or Birth Sin”—Bishop Hugh Latimer (Worcester)
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September 2015 A.D. 9th of 39 Articles, “Of
Original or Birth Sin”—Bishop Hugh Latimer (Worcester)
Article IX—Of Original or Birth-sin.
Original Sin standeth
not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk:) but it is the
fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is ingendered
of the offspring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original
righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh
lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every person born into
this world, it deserveth God’s wrath and damnation. And this infection of
nature doth remain, yea in them that are regenerated: whereby the lust of the
flesh, called in the Greek, phronema sarkos, which some do expound the wisdom,
some sensuality, some the affection, some the desire, of the flesh, is not
subject to the Law of God. And although there is no condemnation for them
that believe and are baptized, yet the Apostle doth confess, that concupiscence
and lust hath of itself the nature of sin.
Bishop Latimer – “‘Lo
in iniquity am I born, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.’ He
(David) doth signify by his words what he had inherited of his parents – of
Adam namely, sin and wickedness; and he speaketh not of himself only, but of
all mankind. He painteth us out in our own colour; showing that all we,
be contaminate, from our birth, with sin, and so should justly be firebrands in
hell, world without end. ... ‘Whatsoever is born of the flesh is flesh,’ that
is to say, is sinful, wicked, and so, destitute of the glory of God, and the
child of the devil.” – Ser. on St. Stephen’s Day.
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