Friday, May 18, 2012

Article 18 of 39: "Obtaining Eternal Salvation Only by the Name of Christ

The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England

Article XVIII


Of obtaining eternal salvation only by the name of Christ


They also are to be had accursed that presume to say that every man shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law and the light of nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out to us only the name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.

De speranda aeterna salute tantum in nomine Christi

Sunt et illi anathematizandi qui dicere audent unumquemque in lege aut secta quam profitetur esse servandum, modo iuxta illam et lumen naturae accurate vixerit: eum sacrae literae tantum Iesu Christi nomen praedicent in quo salvos fieri homines oporteat.
Provenance
Composed in 1552/3 by the English reformers and unchanged since.

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