...you, say we are unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do. In the mean time we do not deny that God rewards good works, but it...crowns his gifts. Moreover, though we do good works, we do not found our salvation upon them ; for we can do no work but what is polluted by our flesh,...

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...you, say we are unpi-ojitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do. In the mean time we do not deny that God rewards good works, but it is through his grace that lie crowns his gifts. Moreover, though we do good works, we do not found our salvation upon them ;...

...above their worth" (9). In his spirit the Belgic Confession (1561) says in art. 24: "In the meantime we do not deny that God rewards good works, but it is through his grace that he crowns his gifts." In this train of thought there is something that does not seem right, and which is not found in Paul....

...you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which it was our duty to do. In the meantime we do not deny that God rewards good works, but it...crowns His gifts. Moreover, though we do good works, we do not found our salvation upon them; for we can do no work but what is polluted by our flesh, and...