{"query": "Belgic Art. 12: The Creation", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_c_9594f49c2f42", "title": "Belgic Art. 12: The Creation references Creation", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Creation (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_d66f8fc2d98e", "title": "Belgic Art. 14: The Creation and Fall of Man, and his Incapacity to Perform What Is Truly Good references Creation", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Creation (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_d783e4d837f1", "title": "Belgic Art. 12: The Creation", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe that the Father, by the Word, that is, by his Son, created of nothing the heaven, the earth, and all creatures, when it seemed good unto him, giving to every creature its being, shape, form"}, {"id": "card_n_dbdef539e6b0", "title": "Belgic Art. 14: The Creation and Fall of Man, and his Incapacity to Perform What Is Truly Good", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Man being created good was by the instigation of the devil and his own will separated from God, who was his life, having corrupted his whole nature."}, {"id": "card_n_9cf408db924a", "title": "Belgic Art. 2: By What Means God Is Made Known", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We know God by two means: first, by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe — which is before our eyes as a beautiful book; second, more clearly and fully by his holy and divine Wor"}, {"id": "card_c_8cec701cf58b", "title": "1689 LBCF ch. 4: Of Creation references Creation", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Creation (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_e5c0cda9157a", "title": "Belgic Art. 34: Holy Baptism", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe and confess that Jesus Christ, in whom the law is fulfilled, has by his shed blood put an end to every other shedding of blood. 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