Apart from Faith, No One Can Do Anything Good

From Peter Masters…

…acts of charity etc, are not of themselves, good works. Good works begin with obedience to God and the call and commands of Scripture. Unbelievers living in disobedience to them cannot perform good works.

The 1689 Confession states the following:

Works performed by unregenerate men, although they may in essence be things which God commands, and they may be good and beneficial both to themselves and others, yet because they do not proceed from a heart purified by faith, and are not done in a right manner according to the Word, and because it is not their underlying purpose to bring glory to God, therefore they are sinful, and cannot please God, nor can they make a man fit to receive grace from God. And yet, for unregenerate men to neglect such works is even more sinful and displeasing to God.