Walking by the Spirit and bearing much fruit
Thesis V. Besides, how could believers be said to walk by the Spirit and not by the flesh, or to sow to the Spirit and not to the flesh? How could they be said to have put on the new self, created after God's likeness in righteousness and true holiness, and to have become slaves of righteousness who offer their bodies to God as instruments of righteousness, if no truly holy and just works come from them?
And what can we take the Lord to mean, if not works of righteousness and holiness, when he speaks in John 15 of the fruit borne by 'whoever remains in me, and I in him: he bears much fruit'?
Latin
V. Praeterea quomodo dici possent fideles ambulare secundum spiritum, & non secundum carnem: Ac spiritui & non carni serere: Item induti esse novo homine qui creatus est secundum Deum, in justitia & sanctitate veritatis, & facti Justitiae servi, qui membra sua exhibent arma justitiae Deo, si ab iis nulla opera vere sancta & justa procedunt? Aut quid aliud quam opera justitiae & sanctitatis intelligere possumus, per fructum illum de quo dicit Dominus, qui manet in me, & ego in eo, hic fert fructum multum? Joh. 15.