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591, 704 to 708: that good works do not in any wise enter into justification, pp. 589, 702. App. 62, 173: that good works do not preserve salvation nor faith, pp. 590, 705, App. p. 174: that neither does repentance enter into justification by faith, pp. 165, 320, App. p. 158: that repentance is nothing more than praying to God, acknowledging the truth of the gospel, giving of thanks, being obedient to the magistracy, and following one's calling, pp. 12, 198. App. pp. 158, 159, 172, 266: that renovation of life has likewise nothing to do with justification, pp. 585, 685, 688, 689. App. p. 170: that attention to obedience for the time to come, in like manner, neither enters into faith, nor justifies, pp. 90, 91, 690, App. p. 167: that the sins of the regenerate are covered over by the merit of Christ, pp. 641, 686, 687, 719, 720: besides many other passages of the same purport.

It is a remarkable circumstance that the doctrine of justification by faith alone prevails at this day over every other doctrine throughout all reformed Christendom, and is esteemed almost as the only important point of theology among the sacred order. This is what all young students among the clergy greedily learn and imbibe at the universities, and what they afterwards teach in the churches, and publish in print, as if they were inspired with heavenly wisdom, and whereby they endeavor to acquire to themselves a name, and the reputation of superior learning, as well as diplomas, licenses and other honorary rewards. And these things are done, notwithstanding it is owing to this doctrine