2 October 2015 A.D. 9th of 39 Articles, “Of Original or Birth-sin”—Reformed Bishop Myles Coverdale (Exeter), exile multiple times & co-consecrator of the 71st CANTUAR, Matthew Parker
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October 2015 A.D. 9th of 39 Articles, “Of
Original or Birth-sin”—Reformed Bishop Myles Coverdale (Exeter), exile multiple
times & co-consecrator of the 71st CANTUAR, Matthew Parker
Jones,
Thomas R. “An Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles.” NewScriptorium. N.d. http://newscriptorium.com/assets/docs/anglican/39-articles/jones39reformers.htm. Accessed 7 Jun 2015.
An
Exposition of the Thirty Nine Articles, By the Reformers: Extracts carefully
and fully selected from the Works of Latimer, Ridley, Cranmer, Hooper, Jewel,
Philpot, Pilkington, Coverdale, Becon, Bradford, Sandys, Grindal, Whitgift,
Etc.
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 Coverdale –
“The words of the prophet are these, ‘All we are become as an unclean man, and
all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.’ ... In your Latin ye read the text
thus, ‘All we are unclean, and as filthy rags.’ So that ye leave out all
our righteousnesses. Now if the text may stand still for you, as the Holy
Ghost left it, that all our righteousness and best works are unclean, and not
without some blemish; then happily you will have little thank, not only for
holding against it, but also for minishing the text. As touching the
Germans (to whom ye impute error in this behalf), their doctrine is, that when
the servants of God have done all that is commanded them, they must acknowledge
themselves to be unprofitable, to have occasion continually to cry unto God,
and to say, ‘O forgive us our trespasses,’ to acknowledge ‘that in their flesh
dwelleth no good thing;’ yea, and to confess, that though they ‘delight in the
law of God after the inward man, yet there is another law in their members,
which striveth against the law of their mind, and taketh them prisoners in the
law of sin, which is in their members;’ that ‘there is no man but he sinneth,’
that ‘the whole life upon earth is a very battle,’ where ‘the flesh lusteth
against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;’ so that Christian men
cannot bring every thing to such a perfection as they feign would.” ... Thus
taught also St. Augustine.” – Confutation of Standish.
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