{"query": "Belgic Art. 36: The Civil Government", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_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_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_a66872a4a2b2", "title": "Belgic Art. 15: Original Sin", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe that, through the disobedience of Adam, original sin is extended to all mankind; which is a corruption of the whole nature."}, {"id": "card_n_5a42ae2a80a8", "title": "Belgic Art. 9: The Proof of the Foregoing Article of the Trinity from the Testimonies of Holy Scripture", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "All this we know from the testimonies of Holy Writ as well as from the operations of the Persons. Old Testament passages name the three; New Testament passages confirm the three; baptism is administer"}, {"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_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_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_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. The authority does not rest on the church, but on the testimony of the "}, {"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_abb762f65186", "title": "Belgic Art. 27: The Catholic Christian Church", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe and profess one catholic or universal Church, which is a holy congregation of true Christian believers, all expecting their salvation in Jesus Christ, being washed by his blood, sanctified "}, {"id": "card_n_91b5471c94ae", "title": "Belgic Art. 8: God Is One in Essence, Yet Distinguished in Three Persons", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe in one only God, who is one single essence in which are three persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — really, truly, and eternally distinct."}, {"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_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_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_a97b8c218d05", "title": "Belgic Art. 22: Our Justification through Faith in Jesus Christ", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe that, to attain the true knowledge of this great mystery, the Holy Ghost kindleth in our hearts an upright faith, which embraces Jesus Christ with all his merits, appropriates him, and seek"}, {"id": "card_n_1ac5299c16f9", "title": "Belgic Art. 7: The Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe that those Holy Scriptures fully contain the will of God, and that whatsoever man ought to believe unto salvation is sufficiently taught therein. It is unlawful to teach or to receive as bi"}, {"id": "card_n_d6ff3d1006a6", "title": "Belgic Art. 21: The Satisfaction of Christ Our Only High Priest, for Us", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe that Jesus Christ is ordained with an oath to be an everlasting High Priest, after the order of Melchisedec; and that he has presented himself in our behalf before the Father, to appease hi"}, {"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"}]}