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justification by works

noun Theology.

the belief that a person becomes just before God by the performance of good works: the doctrine against which Luther protested in inaugurating the Protestant Reformation.

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"Shall the work say to the workman, why hast though made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same stuff to make one vessel to honor, another to dishonor? According therefore to this answer of St. Paul, I answer my Lord's objection, and say, the power of God alone without other helps is sufficient justification of any action he doth. That which men make amongst themselves here ... and call by the name of justice, and according whereunto men are accounted and termed rightly just or unjust, is not that by which God Almighty's actions are to be measured or called just.... That which he does, is made just by his doing it; just, I say, in him, though not always just in us."

-Thomas Hobbes

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