Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father,

he shall testify of me."

"But the Comforter,

John xv. 26.

which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things." John xiv. 26.

"Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear." Acts ii. 32, 33.

"Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God." Acts v. 3, 5. "Who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God." Heb. ix. 14. "But the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men." Matt. xii. 31.

FORMULARIES.

"O God, who at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people, by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit; grant us, by the same Spirit, to have a right judgment in all things; and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour; who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit; one God, world without end." Collect for Whitsunday.

"O God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son," &c. Litany.

"3dly, In God the Holy Ghost, who sancti

fieth me and all the elect people of God." Church Catechism.

See also the Apostles', the Nicene, and particularly the Athanasian Creed.

THE

DOCTRINE OF THE FALL OF MAN.

ARTICLE IX.- - Of Original or Birth Sin.

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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 is naturally engendered of the offspring of Adam, whereby he is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil; so that the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and therefore in every person born into the world, it deserves God's wrath and damnation and this infection of nature doth remain, yea, in them that are regenerate, 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."

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SCRIPTURE.

“God made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions." inventions." Eccles. vii. 29.

"Death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression." Rom. v. 14.

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By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that (or in whom) all have sinned." "The judgment was by one to condemnation," &c. "By one man's offence death reigned by one," &c. "By one man's disobedience many were made sinners." Rom. v. 12, &c.

"The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." Gen. viii. 21.

"I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me." Psalm xxi. 5.

"The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand and seek God: they are all gone aside, they are altogether become filthy, there is none that doeth good, no, not one." Psalm xiv. 2, 3.

"What things soever the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." Rom. iii. 19.

"In Adam all die."

1 Cor. xv. 22.

FORMULARIES.

"All men are conceived and born in sin (and that which is born of the flesh is flesh); and they that are in the flesh cannot please God, but live in sin, committing many actual transgressions." Baptismal Service.

"Grant to this child that thing which by nature he cannot have." Ibid.

"Who being born in original sin, and in the wrath of God," &c. Ibid.

"Being by nature born in sin, and the children of wrath." Church Catechism.

"We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. 99 "And there is no health in " General Confession.

us."

"Have mercy upon us, miserable offenders." Ibid.

"Have mercy upon us, miserable sinners." Litany.

"Though we be tied and bound with the chain. of our sins." Liturgy.

"Create and make in us new and contrite hearts." Collect, Ash Wednesday.

ARTICLE X.-Of Free-will.

"The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself by his own natural strength and good works to faith and calling upon God: wherefore we have

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no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God, by Christ, preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us when we have that good will."

SCRIPTURE.

They that are in the flesh cannot please God." Rom. viii. 8.

"We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God." 2 Cor. iii. 5.

"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for us." Rom. v. 6.

"You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins." Ephes. ii. 1.

"No man can come to me, except the Father, which hath sent me, draw him." John vi. 44.

"It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure." ` Phil. ii. 13.

"The Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him." John xiv. 17.

FORMULARIES.

Almighty God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves." Collect, Second Sunday in Lent.

"O Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men,