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We cōdemne therefore those: which teach, that for the worthinesse of their works, there is due vnto them either remission of sinnes, or ternall life, or any other good gift. For though wee should perfectly fulfill the commande∣ments of God, yet we should be but vnprofi∣table seruants. * 1.1 But no mā yea after his ingraf∣ting
into Christ, keepeth the commandemēts of God, as they should be kept. Meanewhile we disproue not the Fathers, in that they vsed the worde merite: namely so farreforth as thereby they ment nothing else, then a good worke, done by faith, vnto which of fauour, and for the onely merites of Christ was gi∣uen a reward. Againe wee cannot allowe of those which doe so discourse of good workes, as if they were things indifferent: and there∣fore hold that the same are not onely neede∣lesse, * 1.2 but also doe nothing auaile to saluation. For how should any man bee saued without faith? and how can he haue a liuing faith with∣out a care to doe good workes? and who can also hold faith, vnlesse hee also keepe a good conscience? and how can he keep a good con∣science, vnlesse he also keepe a care to auoide sinne, and to doe good workes, and to frame his whole life to the will of God? but wee sim∣ply condemne all Libertines, who make it all one to keep or not to keep gods commande∣ments, to do well or to doe ill. We condemne also those, which teach that our good workes doe profite the very soules of the dead, which lye in a certaine burning flame, which they call purgatorie: * 1.3 sith the scripture saieth, euerie one shalbe iudged according to his owne works, which he did in his owne bodie: * 1.4 and, not the works of o∣ther men, but their owne workes, doe followe them which are dead.
Luc. 17.10
Heb. 11.6 Iud. 2 20
2. Cor. 3.10
Apoc. 14.13