evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy. There is nothing un-Protestant about stressing the need for personal holiness. For example, the Belgic Confession (1561) says, “we do not base our salvation on [good works].” We are justified by faith alone, apart from works. But the Confession also says, “it is impossible for this holy faith to be unfruitful in a human being, seeing that we do not speak of an empty faith but of what Scripture calls ‘faith working