are to be understood as involving not coercion but the due “necessary” obedience which genuine believers, in so far as they are reborn, render not by coercion or compulsion of the law but from a spontaneous spirit because they are longer under the law but under grace.” 17 We also “no reject and condemn as offensive and as subversive of Christian discipline that bald statement that good works are detrimental to salvation. 18 Especially in these last times, it is just as necessary to exhort people to Christian discipline and good works, and to remind them how necessary it is that they exercise themselves in good works as an evidence of their faith and their gratitude toward God, as it is to warn against mingling good works in the article of justification. Such an Epicurean dream concerning faith can damn people as much as a papistic and Pharisaic confidence in one’s own works and merit.
“necessary” are to be understood as involving not coercion but the due obedience which genuine believers, in so far as they are reborn, render not by coercion or compulsion of the law but from a spontaneous spirit because they are “no longer under the law but under grace.” 17 We also reject and condemn as offensive and as subversive of Christian discipline that bald statement that good works are detrimental to salvation. 18 Especially in these last times, it is just as necessary to exhort people to Christian discipline and good works, and to remind them how necessary it is that they exercise themselves in good works as an evidence of their faith and their gratitude toward God, as it is to warn against mingling good works in the article of justification. Such an Epicurean dream concerning faith can damn people as much as a papistic and Pharisaic confidence in one’s own works and merit.
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