The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

Hope looketh unto his gi•t and reward Charity looketh unto her neighbours profit; Faith receiveth ⟨p. 12⟩God. Hope receiveth his reward: Charity looketh unto her neighbour with a glad heart, and that without any respect of reward. Faith pertaineth to God only; Hope to his reward; and Charity to her neighbour. Of good Works. ¹NO manner of works make us righteous: We believe that a man shall be justified without works. No man is justified by the deeds of the Law, but by the Faith of Jesus Christ; and we believe in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by the Faith of Christ, and not by the deeds of the Law. If righteousness come by the Law, then Christ died in vain: That no man is justified by the Law, it is manifest, for a righteous man liveth by his Faith; but the Law is not of Faith. Moreover, since Christ the maker of heaven and earth; and all that therein is, behoved to die for us: We are compelled to grant, that we were so far drowned in sins, that neither the deeds, nor all the creatures that ever God made or might make, might help us out of them: Ergo, No deeds nor works can make us righteous: No works make us unrighteous; for if any work made us unrighteous, then the contrary works would make us righteous. But it is proved that no works can make us righteous; Ergo, No works make us unrighteous. Works make us neither good nor evil. IT is proved that works neither make us righteous nor unrighteous. Ergo, No works neither make us good nor evil; for righteous and good are one thing, and unrighteous and evil, another. Good works make not a good man, nor evil works an evil man. But a good man maketh good works, and an evil man evil works; good fruit maketh not the tree good, nor evil fruit the tree evil. But a good tree beareth good fruit, and an evil tree evil fruit. A good man cannot do evil works, nor an evil man good works, for an evil tree cannot bear good fruit, nor a good tree evil fruit. A good man is good before he do good works, and an evil man is evil before he do evil works; for the tree is good before it bear good fruit, and evil before it bear evil fruit. Every man is either good or evil; either make the tree good, and the fruit good also; or else make the tree evil, and the fruit likewise evil. Every mans work is either good or evil; for all fruit is either good or evil.

Hope looketh unto his git and reward Charity looketh unto her neighbours profit; Faith receiveth