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 prove faith with works of love toward God and our neighbour.

"2. Since mere faith does not suffice for salvation, good works must also be added to it.

"3. Whoso permits his faith to stand by itself and does not prove it by good works, he changes Christian liberty into liberty of the flesh. [This condemns Luther's doctrine.]

"4. In this miserable and dangerous life, it is most necessary to impress unceasingly on the people the fear of God, that in all their works they should keep God before their eyes.

"5. A man should take care of all his thoughts, words and acts, according to the plumb-line of the divine word, so that he can always preserve a good conscience towards God.

"6. All things do not come to pass of necessity.

"7. He who denies the free will of men and calls it an empty claim, is nothing in himself, nicknames God a tyrant, charges him with injustice, and gives the wicked excuse to remain in their sins.

"8. To avoid evil works and repent of our sins is the doctrine of the whole gospel.

"9. The blessed Virgin Mary is, and always was, pure and unspotted.

"10. Mary is the mother of God.

"11. Christ was truly God.

"12. Original sin is not only an infirmity or defect, as some write, but a condemnable sin, if we are not in Christ and live according to the flesh. It is the mother and root of all sins.

"13. I know in the Scripture no ground for a special purgatory, outside of heaven and hell.