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The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith Paragraph 16.2

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These good works, done in obedience to God’s commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith;1 and by them believers manifest their thankfulness,2 strengthen their assurance,3 edify their brethren, adorn the profession of the gospel,4 stop the mouths of the adversaries, and glory God,5 whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus thereunto,6 that having their fruit unto holiness they may have the end eternal life.7
expand_more [1] James 2:18, 22
expand_more [2] Psalm 116:12–13
expand_more [3] 1 John 2:3, 5; 2 Peter 1:5–11
expand_more [4] Matthew 5:16
expand_more [5] 1 Timothy 6:1; 1 Peter 2:15; Philippians 1:11
expand_more [6] Ephesians 2:10
expand_more [7] Romans 6:22

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