Adelphoi,
One of the most powerful English Protestant statements that good works flow from true, lively faith in Christ Jesus, that good works means obeying God's commandments (not the commandments and inventions of man) and that much late medieval religion obscured the relation of true faith and true obedience is in " A Sermon of Good Works annexed unto Faith" which is the fifth of the Homilies of 1547, re-issued with others in the reign of Elizabeth and referred to in The Thirty-Nine Articles.
I have recorded it and Barbara Rabett has placed it on the church website -- www.christchurch-biddulph.fsnet.co.uk -- to be heard by those who have speakers with their computer. There are now five of these unique Homilies to be heard there.
It is in Three Parts -- 8 mins, 13 mins and 12 mins. Please pay a visit and hear it. It really gives you a sense of the importance of justification by faith and of faith working by love in good works of the period of the mid-16th century.
Happy listening.
Thank you.
The Rev'd Dr. Peter Toon
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