Westminster Confession of Faith (modernized) · Chapter 16

Of Good Works

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5. We cannot, by our best Works, merit pardon of sin, or eternal life at the hand of God, by reason of the great disproportion that is between them and the glory to come; and, the infinite distance that is between us and God, whom, by them, we can neither profit, nor satisfy for the debt of our former sins,^a but, when we have done all we can, we have done but our duty, and are unprofitable servants;^b and, because, as they are good, they proceed from his Spirit;^c and, as they are wrought by us, they are defiled, and mixed with so much weakness and imperfection, that they cannot endure the severity of Gods judgment.^d

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