{"query": "Belgic Art. 3: The Written Word of God", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_d070a34c67cf", "title": "Easton: Word of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. 4:12, etc.). The Bible so called because the writers of its several books were God’s organs in communicating his will to men. It is his “word,” because he speaks to us in its sacred pages. Whate"}, {"id": "card_n_4994665cec8a", "title": "Belgic Art. 31: The Ministers, Elders, and Deacons", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe that the ministers of God's Word, the elders, and the deacons ought to be chosen to their respective offices by a lawful election of the Church, with calling upon the name of the Lord, and "}, {"id": "card_n_2288684e8c31", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_014: Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor of the will of man, nor of the will of the flesh, but of God. But that the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, I read"}, {"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_cc9fa5350d27", "title": "Belgic Art. 4: Canonical Books of the Holy Scripture", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We confess that the Word of God is contained in the books of the Old and New Testament. The 66 books are the canon."}, {"id": "card_c_ed037fd24a8e", "title": "Belgic Art. 3: The Written Word of God 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_13002c646fe4", "title": "Belgic Art. 29: The Marks of the True Church, and Wherein She Differs from the False Church", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe that we ought diligently and circumspectly to discern from the Word of God which is the true Church, since all sects in the world assume to themselves the name. The marks: pure preaching of"}, {"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_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_975b4b9e29e3", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §358: IGNOR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "IGNOR. When do our thoughts of ourselves agree with the Word of God? CHR. When we pass the same judgment upon ourselves which the Word passes. To explain myself--the Word of God saith of persons in a "}, {"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_9e88feeb505a", "title": "Easton: Temple", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First used of the tabernacle, which is called “the temple of the Lord” (1 Sam. 1:9). In the New Testament the word is used figuratively of Christ’s human body (John 2:19, 21). Believers are called “th"}, {"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_81f53e0757ca", "title": "Belgic Art. 37: Of the Last Judgment", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Finally we believe, according to the Word of God, that when the time appointed by the Lord (which is unknown to all creatures) is come, and the number of the elect complete, our Lord Jesus Christ will"}, {"id": "card_n_efd92dd5f79e", "title": "Easton: Luke, Gospel according to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Luke. He does not claim to have been an eye-witness of our Lord’s ministry, but to have gone to the best sources of information within his reach, and to have written an orderly narrativ"}, {"id": "card_n_e1df4c77bac5", "title": "Easton: Word, The", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. Logos), one of the titles of our Lord, found only in the writings of John (John 1:1-14; 1 John 1:1; Rev. 19:13). As such, Christ is the revealer of God. His office is to make God known. “No man h"}, {"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_7672e1661e23", "title": "Easton: Thessalonians, Epistles to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first epistle to the Thessalonians was the first of all Paul’s epistles. It was in all probability written from Corinth, where he abode a “long time” (Acts 18:11, 18), early in the period of his r"}, {"id": "card_n_1a75580d235c", "title": "Genesis 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.\n2. The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.\n3"}]}