2nd Helvetic Confession, 16: "Faith, Good Works, Reward & Man's Merit"

CHAPTER XVI


Of Faith and
Good Works, and of Their Reward,
and of Man's Merit


WHAT
IS FAITH? Christian faith is not an opinion or human conviction, but a most
firm trust and a clear and steadfast assent of the mind, and then a most
certain apprehension of the truth of God presented in the Scriptures and in the
Apostles' Creed, and thus also of God himself, the greatest good, and