Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry by Rivers Isabel;

Author:Rivers, Isabel;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2011-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

GOOD WORKS

14 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

James 1:27

15 Faith is a lively thing, mighty in working, valiant, and strong, ever doing, ever fruitful; so that it is impossible that he who is endued therewith should not work always good works without ceasing. He asketh not whether good works are to be done or not, but hath done them already, ere mention be made of them; and is always doing, for such is his nature; for quick faith in his heart, and lively moving of the Spirit, drive him and stir him thereunto. Whosoever doth not good works, is an unbelieving person, and faithless, and looketh round about him, groping after faith and good works, and wotteth not what faith or good works mean, though he babble never so many things of faith and good works. Faith is, then, a lively and a steadfast trust in the favour of God, wherewith we commit ourselves altogether unto God… And such trust, wrought by the Holy Ghost through faith, maketh a man glad, lusty, cheerful, and true-hearted unto God and unto all creatures: whereof, willingly and without compulsion, he is glad and ready to do good to every man, to do service to every man, to suffer all things, that God may be loved and praised, which hath given him such grace; so that it is impossible to separate good works from faith, even as it is impossible to separate heat and burning from fire.

Tyndale Prologue upon the Epistle of St Paul to the Romans (trans. from Luther’s Preface to the Epistle to the Romans)

16 Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they sprang not of faith in Jesus Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace…yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin.

The Thirty-Nine Articles XIII ‘Of Works before Justification’

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