Westminster Larger Catechism
Q. 94. Is there any use of the moral law to man since the fall?A. Although no man, since the fall, can attain to righteousness and life by the moral law:[402] yet there is great use thereof, as well common to all men, as peculiar either to the unregenerate, or the regenerate.[403]
We will be offering feeds from this great document that Anglicans should have embraced with a few modifications. Nontheless, it represented the theology of many Anglicans of that day without the rebellions of the Puritans.
Archbishop James Ussher of Ireland was one such man. For a free download of Ussher's works, see:
http://books.google.com/books?id=_ssrAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=james+ussher&as_brr=1&ei=ZypJSqi5LaaGNaTyxMsO
This particular question from the Westminster Larger Catechism informs us about the lamentable reduction of the evangelical gospel in the 1928 BCP---the penitential dimension is diminished, as it is in our time.
That reduction, however, does not norm or govern our behaviour or duties. It is time for another Reformation within Anglicanism.
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