 With no act having intrinsic worth, the meritoriousness of human behavior was grounded in a covenant between God and the human faithful. Within the terms of the New Law, God would not deny salvation to all those who did their best to obey his commands and adhere to the Articles of the Faith. The causal effect of meritorious acts in effecting salvation was a secondary form of causality, functioning like money, as an agreed upon medium of exchange in the economy of salvation. Because God’s goodness was not a guarantee of covenant, however, Holkot stressed that human adherence to the terms of the covenant constituted an act of faith that God would indeed uphold his promises, even knowing that nothing compels God to do so (Slotemaker and Witt 2015, 30–32).