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42 favour, and made His children, and inheritors of His kingdom of heaven."

How does it teach us to apply it to the case of those who live to commit actual sin?

It informs us that "they which in act or deed do sin after their baptism, when they turn again to God unfeignedly, they are likewise washed by this sacrifice from their sins."

How do we know that these words refer to justification by Christ?

Because the Homily immediately adds, "this is that justification or righteousness which St. Paul speaketh of, when he saith, no man is justified by the works of the law, but freely by faith in Jesus Christ."

What is the subject of the twelfth Article?

"Good Works."

What works of man are really good?

Those "which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification."

How have we power to do such works?

By the grace of God by Christ preventing us and working with us.

Why cannot such works "put away our sins?"

Because we have no power to do them without the grace of God.

Why cannot they "endure the severity of God's judgment?"