Necessary-Fruit-Not-Meritorious WCF baseline
Good works are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith; they cannot merit pardon of sin or eternal life (WCF XVI.2, 5).
This is the position the Westminster Standards take on Good Works.
The Confession affirms this position as its confessional norm. Personas and schools that hold the Westminster baseline on this attribute will show this value; those who depart from it will show one of the alternatives below.
Who holds this position
Schools (16)
English Presbyterian Majority
Scottish Commissioners
The Five Dissenting Brethren (Independents)
The Erastians
The Hypothetical Universalists (Davenant-Calamy Line)
The Supralapsarians
The Reformed Episcopal Absentees
The Savoy Declaration (1658)
The Second London Confession (1689)
The American Presbyterian Revision (1788)
The Free Church of Scotland (1843)
Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) Tradition
The Marrow Men (1717–1722)
Cumberland Presbyterians (1810)
The Orthodox Presbyterian Church (1936)
The Presbyterian Church in America (1973)
Personas (181)
William Twisse
1577–1646
Charles Herle
1598–1659
Cornelius Burgess
1589–1665
John White (of Dorchester)
1575–1648
Henry Roborough
d. 1650
Adoniram Byfield
d. c. 1660
John Wallis
1616–1703
Alexander Henderson
1583–1646
Samuel Rutherford
c. 1600–1661
George Gillespie
1613–1648
Robert Baillie
1602–1662
John Maitland, 2nd Earl of Lauderdale
1616–1682
John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun
1598–1662
John Kennedy, 6th Earl of Cassillis
c. 1595–1668
Archibald Johnston of Wariston
1611–1663
Edmund Calamy the Elder
1600–1666
Stephen Marshall
c. 1594–1655
Edward Reynolds
1599–1676
Anthony Tuckney
1599–1670
Richard Vines
1600–1656
Lazarus Seaman
1607–1675
William Gouge
1575–1653
John Arrowsmith
1602–1659
Thomas Hill
d. 1653
Herbert Palmer
1601–1647
Obadiah Sedgwick
c. 1600–1658
Henry Wilkinson the Elder
1566–1647
Henry Wilkinson the Younger
1610–1675
George Walker
1581–1651
Thomas Gataker
1574–1654
Francis Cheynell
1608–1665
Daniel Featley
1582–1645
John Ley
1583–1662
Thomas Young
1587–1655
Matthew Newcomen
c. 1610–1669
William Spurstowe
c. 1605–1666
Joshua Hoyle
1588–1654
Anthony Burgess
d. 1664
Christopher Love
1618–1651
Simeon Ashe
d. 1662
Thomas Wilson (of Maidstone)
1601–1653
Edmund Staunton
1600–1671
Robert Harris
1581–1658
John Conant
1608–1694
Henry Scudder
c. 1585–c. 1652
Daniel Cawdrey
1588–1664
Humphrey Chambers
1599–1662
Francis Taylor
1589–1656
Jeremiah Whitaker
1599–1654
Francis Roberts
1609–1675
John Wincop
d. 1647
Andrew Perne
1596–1654
William Carter the Elder
d. c. 1658
Thomas Bayley
d. c. 1657
John Langley
c. 1593–1657
John Bond
1612–1676
John Greene
d. 1644
William Bridges
1600–1670
Humphrey Hardwick
d. c. 1660
John Foxcroft
d. 1658
Peter Smith
d. c. 1653
John Philips
d. 1660
John Arrowsmith of Cambridge
d. 1652
Thomas Temple
1567–1661
John Strickland
c. 1601–1670
William Price
c. 1597–1666
Francis Woodcock
d. 1651
Thomas Case
1598–1682
Thomas Thoroughgood
c. 1595–1669
John Jackson
c. 1600–1648
Peter Clarke
d. 1665
Thomas Ford
1598–1674
William Rathband
d. 1641 (named posthumously?)
John Maynard (of Mayfield)
1600–1665
John de la March
d. 1650s
Philip Delmé
c. 1593–c. 1654
George Walker (of Banstead)
d. c. 1657
John Gibbon
d. c. 1660
William Mew
c. 1602–1669
Richard Capel
1586–1656
Thomas Goodwin
1600–1680
Philip Nye
1595–1672
Jeremiah Burroughs
1599–1646
William Bridge
1600–1671
Sidrach Simpson
c. 1600–1655
William Greenhill
1591–1671
Joseph Caryl
1602–1673
William Carter (of Yarmouth)
d. 1658
Peter Sterry
1613–1672
John Phillip
d. 1660
John Lightfoot
1602–1675
Thomas Coleman
1598–1646
John Selden
1584–1654
Bulstrode Whitelocke
1605–1675
John Pym
1584–1643
Sir Henry Vane the Younger
1613–1662
Oliver St John
c. 1598–1673
Nathaniel Fiennes
1608–1669
Francis Rouse
1579–1659
John Glyn
1602–1666
Sir Henry Vane the Elder
1589–1655
Sir Walter Erle
1586–1665
Sir Robert Harley
1579–1656
John Lisle
1610–1664
Edmund Prideaux
1601–1659
Sir John Clotworthy
d. 1665
John Maynard (the lawyer)
1604–1690
Walter Yonge
1581–1649
Zouch Tate
1606–1650
John Rouse
d. c. 1660
Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland
1602–1668
William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
1582–1662
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester
1602–1671
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
1584–1650
William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
1591–1668
Robert Greville, 2nd Lord Brooke
1607–1643
Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford
1599–1673
Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton
1613–1696
Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick
d. 1675
Dudley North, 4th Baron North
1602–1677
James Ussher
1581–1656
Joseph Hall
1574–1656
Ralph Brownrig
1592–1659
Thomas Westfield
1573–1644
Robert Sanderson
1587–1663
Henry Hammond
1605–1660
Thomas Fuller
1608–1661
Walter Balcanqual
c. 1586–1645
John Dury
1596–1680
Hugh Peters
1598–1660
Joshua Sprigg
1618–1684
George Newton
1602–1681
Thomas Valentine
d. 1665
Richard Byfield
1598–1664
Benjamin Needler
1620–1682
Thomas Hodges
d. 1672
Arthur Jackson
1593–1666
Thomas Bedford
d. 1653
Calybute Downing
1606–1644
Edward Bowles
1613–1662
Edward Corbet
d. 1658
James Cranford
d. 1657
Stanley Gower
d. 1660
William Strong
d. 1654
John Trapp
1601–1669
Thomas Cawton the Elder
1605–1659
Benjamin Pickering
fl. 1640s
Francis Whiddon
fl. 1640s
Henry Painter
d. 1652
Henry Hall
fl. 1640s
Charles Herbert
fl. 1640s
Sampson Saunders
fl. 1640s
Arthur Salway
d. 1656
John Foxley
fl. 1640s
Jasper Hicks
fl. 1640s
Richard Cleyton
fl. 1640s
John Downing
fl. 1640s
John Harris
d. 1658
Francis Coke
fl. 1640s
John Arthur
fl. 1640s
Henry Hutton
fl. 1640s
John Bath
fl. 1640s
Humphrey Saunders
fl. 1640s
John Ward of Ipswich
fl. 1640s
John Cardell
fl. 1640s
John Hampden
1594–1643
Sir Arthur Haselrig
c. 1601–1661
Sir Thomas Widdrington
c. 1600–1664
Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh
1608–1675
Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford
1593–1641
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
1587–1658
John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe
1598–1679
Sir Richard Onslow
1601–1664
Sir John Wray
1586–1655
Sir Robert Pye
1585–1662
John Glynne (alternate spelling)
— see john-glyn
George Morley
1598–1684
Brian Walton
1600–1661
John Cosin
1594–1672
John Williams
1582–1650
Christopher Cartwright
1602–1658
Cruxes on this attribute
The Assembly navigated 1 crux that bear directly on Good Works.