Ends: God, self, neighbor; necessity of good works
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Ends: toward God—obedience and honor; toward ourselves—confirming our calling; toward the neighbor—relieving by love's duties and avoiding scandal.
On necessity: good works are not necessary to justification as a cause, but are necessary in the justified as fruit and the Christian way of life—against those who thrust them into justification itself.
Latin
Fines: propter Deum obedientia et honor; propter nos ipsos ut vocationem confirmemus; propter proximum ut charitatis officiis sublevemus nec scandala simus. De necessitate: bona opera non sunt necessaria ad iustificationem tanquam causa, sed necessaria sunt in iustificatis tanquam fructus et via vitae Christianae—contra Pontificios qui ea in iustificationem ingerunt.