We are accounted righteous before If any man shall say that the God, only for the merit of our good works of a justified man are Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by in such sense the gifts of God, faith, and not for our own works that they are not also his worthy or deservings.—11_th_ _Article of merits; or that he, being Religion_. See Ps. cxliii. 2; justified by his good works, Luke xvii. 10; Rom. iii. 22–24, which are wrought by him through 27, 28. the grace of God and the merits of Jesus Christ, of whom he is a living member, does not really deserve increase of grace, eternal life, the enjoyment of that eternal life, if he dies in a state of grace, and even an increase of glory, let him be accursed.—_Decrees of the Council of Trent_. III. III. The offering of Christ once made If any one say that in the mass is that perfect redemption, there is not a true and proper propitiation, and satisfaction, sacrifice offered unto God; or, for all the sins of the whole that to be offered is nothing world, both original and actual; else but for Christ to be given and there is none other us to eat, let him be satisfaction for sin, but that accursed!—_Decrees of the Council alone.—31_st_ _Article of of Trent_. Religion_. Gal. iii. 13; Heb. vii. 26, 27; ix. 12, 22, 24–28; I further profess, that in the x. 14; 1 John iii. 1, 2. mass is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the quick and dead.—_Creed of Pope Pius IV_. IV. IV.