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GOOD WORKS.

Rom. 7;22.—For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man.—Rom. 6;13.—1 Pet. 4;2.—Gal. 2;20.

*91. But what are good works?

Only those which proceed from a true faith (Heb. 11;6); are performed according to the law of God (Ezek. 20;19), and to his glory (1 Cor. 10;31), and not such as are founded on our imaginations, or the institutions of men (Deut. 12;8).

Heb. 11;6.—But without faith it is impossible to please him.—Heb. 11;4.—Rom. 14;23.

Ezek. 20;19.—I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments and do them.—Lev. 18;4.—Deut. 12;32.

1 Cor. 10;31.—Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.—1 Pet. 4;11.

Deut. 12;8.—Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.—Matt. 15;9.—Ex. 20;18.

34. LORD’S DAY.

*92. What is the Law of God?

God spake all these words (Ex. 20.—Deut. 5), saying: I am the Lord thy God, which hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

1. COMMANDMENT.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

2. COMMANDMENT.

Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting iniquity of the fathers up-