Father may have mercy for the sake of the
Son, who suffered the Cross and made satisfaction for us. For men do not
then address the divine of the Lord but have in mind His human nature,
which they do not acknowledge to be divine. Nor do they profane the Word,
for they do not attend to the passages in which love, charity, deeds and
works are mentioned. All this, they say, is involved in the faith
expressed in the saying quoted. Those who confirm this tell themselves,
"The law does not condemn me, neither then does evil, and good does not
save because good done by me is not good." They are therefore like those
who do not know any truth from the Word and consequently cannot profane
it. Only those confirm the faith expressed in that saying who from
self-love are in the pride of their own intelligence. Nor are these
Christians at heart; they only desire to be looked on as such.

[3] It shall now be shown that the Lord's divine providence is
nevertheless acting constantly to save those with whom faith separated
from charity has become an article of religion. Although this faith has
become an article of their religion, by the Lord's divine providence each
knows that it is not faith that saves, but a life of charity with which
faith makes one. For all churches in which that religion is accepted also
teach that there is no salvation unless man examines himself, sees and
acknowledges his sins, repents, desists from them, and begins a new life.
This is read out with much zeal in the presence of all who come to the
Holy Supper. In addition they are told that unless they do so, they
mingle the holy with the profane and cast themselves into eternal
condemnation. Indeed, in England they are told that unless they do so the
devil will enter them as he did Judas and destroy them soul and body. It
is plain, then, that everyone in the churches in which faith alone is
accepted is nevertheless taught that evils are to be shunned as sins.

[4] Furthermore, everyone who is born a Christian is aware that evils are
to be shunned as sins because the Decalog is put into the hands of every
boy and girl and is taught by parents and teachers. The citizens of a
kingdom and especially the common people are examined by the priest on
the Decalog alone, which is recited from memory, for what they know of
the Christian religion, and are also admonished to do what is commanded
in it. At such times they are not told by the priest that they are not
under the