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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.—EPH. 2:10.因为我们是祂的工作，在基督耶稣里造成的，为要叫我们行善，就是神预先所安排的。——以弗所书2:10
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THE apostle in the context asserteth that our whole salvation is of grace, not of works; he now proveth it.
使徒在此处断言我们的全部救恩是出于恩典，而非行为；祂现在要证明这一点。
That which is the effect of salvation cannot be the cause of it.
救恩的结果不能成为救恩的原因。
But our well-doing is the effect of salvation, if you take it for our first recovery to God; but if you take it for full salvation, or our final deliverance from all evil, works go before it indeed, but in a way of order, not meritorious influence.
但我们的善行是救恩的结果，如果你将救恩理解为我们最初归向上帝；但如果你将救恩理解为完全的救恩，或是我们最终从一切邪恶中得释放，善行确实在其前，但这是秩序使然，而非功德影响。
To think them altogether unnecessary, would too much depreciate and lessen their presence or concurrence; to think they deserve it would as much exalt them, and advance them beyond the line of their due worth and value.
若认为善行完全不必要，就会过分贬低和减损其存在或协同作用；若认为善行应得救恩，就会过分抬高它们，使其超越其应有的价值和地位。
The apostle steereth a middle course between both extremes.
使徒在这两个极端之间采取中间路线。
They are necessary, not meritorious.
善行是必要的，但不具功德性。
They go before eternal life, not as a cause but a way; for they are wrought in us by God, and are effects of the begun salvation; so that the good that we do is a part of the grace that we have received, a fruit of regeneration: ‘For we are his workmanship,’ &c.
善行在永生之前，不是作为原因而是作为途径；因为这些善行是上帝在我们里面动工的结果，是已开始的救恩的果效；因此我们所行的善是我们所领受恩典的一部分，是重生的果实：”因为我们是祂的工作”等。
Table of Contents
目录
Sermon I: Created in Christ Jesus Unto Good Works
讲道一：在基督耶稣里造成为要行善
Sermon II: Created in Christ Jesus Unto Good Works
讲道二：在基督耶稣里造成为要行善