XIII. Of Works before Justification.
Works done before the grace of Christ,
and the Inspiration of the Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they
spring not of faith in Jesus Christ; neither do they make men meet to receive
grace, or (as the School-authors say) deserve grace of congruity: yea rather,
for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done,
we doubt not but they have the nature of sin.