to make your calling and election sure"? 2 Pet. 1:19. Why
would St. Paul have said: "God is not unrighteous to forget
your work and labor of love, which ye have showed towards his
name"? Heb. 6:10. Nor by this do we reject Christ's merit but
we know that our works are nothing and of no merit unless by
virtue of Christ's pssion. We know that Christ is "the way,
the truth and the life,". John 14:6. But Christ, as the Good
Shepherd, who "began to do and teach," Acts 1:1, has given us
an example that as he has done we also should do, John 13:15.
He also went through the desert by the way of good works,
which all Christians ought to pursue, and according to his
command bear the cross and follow him. Matt. 10:38; 16:24.
He who bears not the cross, neither is nor can be Christ's
disciple. That also is true which John says: "He that saith
he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he
walked," 1 John 2:6. Moreover, this opinion concerning good
works was condemned and rejected more than a thousand years
ago in the time of Augustine.


To Article XXI.

In the last place, they present the twenty-first article,
wherein they admit that the memory of saints may be set
before us, that we may follow their faith and good works, but
not that they be invoked and aid be sought of them. It is
certainly wonderful that the princes especially and the
cities have allowed this error to be agitated in their
dominions, which has been condemned so often before in the
Church, since eleven hundred years ago St. Jerome vanquished