{"query": "Belgic Art. 24: Man's Sanctification and Good Works", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d598a2d34ecb", "title": "Belgic Art. 24: Man's Sanctification and Good Works", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe that this true faith, being wrought in man by the hearing of the Word of God and the operation of the Holy Ghost, regenerates and makes him a new man, causing him to live a new life and fre"}, {"id": "card_n_158be448b164", "title": "Easton: Works, Good", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The old objection against the doctrine of salvation by grace, that it does away with the necessity of good works, and lowers the sense of their importance (Rom. 6), although it has been answered a tho"}, {"id": "card_c_5b9586e79278", "title": "Belgic Art. 24: Man's Sanctification and Good Works references Holy Ghost", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Holy Ghost (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_25693c20df48", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_042: And Thou, O God, sawest every thing that Thou hadst made, and, behold, it was...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, O God, sawest every thing that Thou hadst made, and, behold, it was very good. Yea we also see the same, and behold, all things are very good. Of the several kinds of Thy works, when Thou ha"}, {"id": "card_n_207a041c74c6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_018: And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrup...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrupted; which neither were they sovereignly good, nor unless they were good could be corrupted: for if sovereignly good, they "}, {"id": "card_n_4deaa3eb0886", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §357: IGNOR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "IGNOR. But is it not a good heart that hath good thoughts? and is not that a good life that is according to God's commandments? CHR. 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Whereas whatsoever hath not been made, and yet is, hath nothing in it, which before it had not; a"}, {"id": "card_n_1cd8ff22d726", "title": "Easton: Sanctification", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Involves more than a mere moral reformation of character, brought about by the power of the truth: it is the work of the Holy Spirit bringing the whole nature more and more under the influences of the"}, {"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_8375b1560917", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xiv: From the gods I received that I had good grandfathers, and parents, a good si...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the gods I received that I had good grandfathers, and parents, a good sister, good masters, good domestics, loving kinsmen, almost all that I have; and that I never through haste and rashness tra"}, {"id": "card_n_31db5bed18f8", "title": "Belgic Art. 36: The Civil Government", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe that our gracious God, because of the depravity of mankind, has appointed kings, princes, and magistrates; willing that the world should be governed by certain laws and policies, to the end"}, {"id": "card_n_d5c40d3246d4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_052: We therefore see these things which Thou madest, because they are: but they a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We therefore see these things which Thou madest, because they are: but they are, because Thou seest them. And we see without, that they are, and within, that they are good, but Thou sawest them there,"}, {"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_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_29926e451adb", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_06: The testimony of a good conscience is the glory of a good man.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The testimony of a good conscience is the glory of a good man. Have a good conscience and thou shalt ever have joy. 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