Herman Hoeksema on salvation by works?

"salvation is much more than the mere escape from punishment and hell and a check on the bank of heaven that is to be cashed after death. It is a wonderwork of the Almighty, Who quickeneth the dead and calleth the things that are not as if they were. (Romans 4:17) It is a work in which God becomes revealed unto us in "the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from th...e dead, and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places." (Ephesians 1:19, 20) It is a work no less divine, and even more glorious, than the work of creation. All that is required to make of the sinner, dead in sin, filled with enmity against God, cursing the Almighty and raising his rebellious fist in the face of the Lord of heaven and earth, walking in darkness and hating the light - to make of such a sinner a righteous and holy child of GOd, humbly asking what God wills that he shall do, filled with the love of God, and for ever singing His praises, and to place that sinner, thus redeemed and delivered, in living fellowship with the glorious company of all the redeemed and glorified sinners, so that they together constitute a church, a beautiful house of God, a holy temple in the Lord, to the praise of the glory of His grace in the beloved - all this belongs to the work, the mighty work of God that is called salvation!" - Herman Hoeksema in The Wonder of Grace