{"query": "Belgic Art. 31: The Ministers, Elders, and Deacons", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_f4d9f338229b", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_21: Above all things and in all things thou shalt rest alway in the Lord, O my so...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Above all things and in all things thou shalt rest alway in the Lord, O my soul, for he himself is the eternal rest of the saints. Grant me, most sweet and loving Jesus, to rest in Thee above every cr"}, {"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_3e0feabde3ae", "title": "Belgic Art. 35: The Holy Supper of Our Lord Jesus Christ", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe and confess that our Saviour Jesus Christ did ordain and institute the sacrament of the Holy Supper to nourish and support those whom he has already regenerated and incorporated into his fa"}, {"id": "card_n_c4ebdd8a6f8b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_029: Now then let Thy ministers work upon the earth,--not as upon the waters of in...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now then let Thy ministers work upon the earth,--not as upon the waters of infidelity, by preaching and speaking by miracles, and Sacraments, and mystic words; wherein ignorance, the mother of admirat"}, {"id": "card_n_50ed97c85320", "title": "Belgic Art. 5: Whence the Holy Scriptures Derive Their Dignity and Authority", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We receive all these books, and these only, as holy and canonical for the regulation, foundation, and confirmation of our faith. 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Both these appointments"}, {"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_1d3923aa7428", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_004: For with their understanding and wit, which Thou bestowedst on them, they sea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For with their understanding and wit, which Thou bestowedst on them, they search out these things; and much have they found out; and foretold, many years before, eclipses of those luminaries, the sun "}, {"id": "card_n_79d439a9e6a9", "title": "1 Clement X", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Abraham, styled “the friend,” was found faithful, inasmuch as he rendered obedience to the words of God. He, in the exercise of obedience, went out from his own country, and from his kindred, and from"}, {"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_n_14f20aaddc9b", "title": "Belgic Art. 1: There is One Only God", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We all believe with the heart and confess with the mouth that there is one only simple and spiritual Being, which we call God — eternal, incomprehensible, invisible, immutable, infinite, almighty, per"}, {"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_e88415fe2c60", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_019: For altogether, as Thou art, Thou only knowest; Who art unchangeably, and kno...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For altogether, as Thou art, Thou only knowest; Who art unchangeably, and knowest unchangeably, and willest unchangeably. And Thy Essence Knoweth, and Willeth unchangeably; and Thy Knowledge Is, and W"}, {"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_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_7cbd6b555121", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_06_08: Rabbi Shimon ben Menasya said in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Yohai: Beauty, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rabbi Shimon ben Menasya said in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Yohai: Beauty, strength, riches, honor, wisdom, [old age], gray hair, and children are becoming to the righteous, and becoming to the worl"}, {"id": "card_n_a11b43679b2b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_016: And being thence admonished to return to myself, I entered even into my inwar...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And being thence admonished to return to myself, I entered even into my inward self, Thou being my Guide: and able I was, for Thou wert become my Helper. And I entered and beheld with the eye of my so"}]}