{"query": "Belgic Art. 2: By What Means God Is Made Known", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_n_344dd6144576", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_039: But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it wer...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it were said, At first He made, can only truly understand heaven and earth of the matter of heaven and earth, that is, of the uni"}, {"id": "card_n_a43d95aeec20", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_014: See, I answer him that asketh, \"What did God before He made heaven and earth?...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "See, I answer him that asketh, \"What did God before He made heaven and earth?\" I answer not as one is said to have done merrily (eluding the pressure of the question), \"He was preparing hell (saith he"}, {"id": "card_n_7e927528cb6b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_002: And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come"}, {"id": "card_n_f34b7ca6db45", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_045: But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them. Therefore when they see that these things are good, Thou seest that they are good; and whatsoever things for Thy sake please, Thou plea"}, {"id": "card_n_4dae2cc029a5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_030: For should any attempt to dispute against these two last opinions, thus, \"If ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For should any attempt to dispute against these two last opinions, thus, \"If you will not allow, that this formlessness of matter seems to be called by the name of heaven and earth; Ergo, there was so"}, {"id": "card_n_e4a081bb7fed", "title": "Belgic Art. 3: The Written Word of God", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We confess that this Word of God did not come by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Afterward God, from a special care which he has for us and our salvati"}, {"id": "card_n_03e12108137b", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_03_14: He used to say: Beloved is man for he was created in the image [of God].", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He used to say: Beloved is man for he was created in the image [of God]. Especially beloved is he for it was made known to him that he had been created in the image [of God], as it is said: “for in th"}, {"id": "card_n_af6d19f1cfed", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_004: What art Thou then, my God?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most "}, {"id": "card_n_2024c1ff59f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_013: And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest g...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest grace unto the humble, and by how great an act of Thy mercy Thou hadst traced out to men the way of humility, in that Thy Wo"}, {"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. Therefore he has instituted in its place the sacrament of bap"}, {"id": "card_n_36c39e258b67", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_028: Out of these truths, of which they doubt not whose inward eye Thou hast enabl...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Out of these truths, of which they doubt not whose inward eye Thou hast enabled to see such things, and who unshakenly believe Thy servant Moses to have spoken in the Spirit of truth;--of all these th"}, {"id": "card_n_757dd081e2b2", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_59: O Lord, what is my trust which I have in this life, or what is my greatest co...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord, what is my trust which I have in this life, or what is my greatest comfort of all the things which are seen under Heaven? Is it not Thou, O Lord my God, whose mercies are without number? Where"}, {"id": "card_n_d9a87d92cd43", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_013: By this may the soul, whose pilgrimage is made long and far away, by this may...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "By this may the soul, whose pilgrimage is made long and far away, by this may she understand, if she now thirsts for Thee, if her tears be now become her bread, while they daily say unto her, Where is"}, {"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_c595fef82737", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_iv: Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good, when by it thou art hindered from some other better work. That is, spend"}, {"id": "card_n_7e4c3e5a047a", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §364: IGNOR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "IGNOR. What! would you have us trust to what Christ, in his own person, has done without us? This conceit would loosen the reins of our lust, and tolerate us to live as we list; for what matter how we"}, {"id": "card_n_fa1b8a8871c5", "title": "Belgic Art. 23: Wherein Our Justification Before God Consists", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe that our salvation consists in the remission of our sins for Jesus Christ's sake, and that therein our righteousness before God is implied; as David and Paul teach us, declaring this to be "}, {"id": "card_n_0eb0b11f33ad", "title": "Hebrews 11", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.\n2. For by this, the elders obtained approval.\n3. By faith we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, s"}, {"id": "card_n_3c12120eef45", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_013: For so doth pride imitate exaltedness; whereas Thou alone art God exalted ove...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For so doth pride imitate exaltedness; whereas Thou alone art God exalted over all. Ambition, what seeks it, but honours and glory? whereas Thou alone art to be honoured above all, and glorious for ev"}]}