Good Works and Merit
Do works, from their intrinsic value and worth, merit and obtain the reward promised by God and by the virtue of which they can be said to effect salvation itself? Our opponents affirm; we deny.
Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, ed. James T. Dennison Jr., trans. George Musgrave Giger, vol. 2 (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 1992–1997), 714