Article 12 of 39: "Good Works"

Article XII

Of Good Works

Albeit that good works, which are
the fruits of faith and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins
and endure the severity of God's judgment, yet are they pleasing and acceptable
to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith,
insomuch that by them a lively faith may be as evidently known as a tree
discerned by the fruit.