Of Christ alone without Sin
Christ in the truth of
our nature was made like unto us in all things, sin only except, from which He
was clearly void, both in His flesh and in His spirit. He came to be the lamb
without spot, Who by sacrifice of Himself once made, should take away the sins
of the world: and sin, as S. John saith, was not in Him. But all we the rest,
although baptized and born again in Christ, yet offend in many things: and if
we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Christus
in nostrae naturae veritate per omnia similis factus est nobis, excepto
peccato, a quo prorsus est immunis, tum in carne tum in spiritu. Venit ut agnus
absque macula esset, qui mundi peccata per immolationem sui semel factam
tolleret: et peccatum, ut inquit Iohannes, in eo non erat. Sed nos reliqui,
etiam baptizati et in Christo regenerati, in multis tamen offendimus omnes: et,
si dixerimus quia peccatum non habemus, nos ipsos seducimus, et veritas in
nobis non est.
Provenance
Composed
in 1552/3 by the English reformers and unchanged since.
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