{"query": "Belgic Art. 8: God Is One in Essence, Yet Distinguished in T", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_374ddecdd1fb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_010: I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first ru...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess muc"}, {"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_f6ebc90ccbaf", "title": "1 John 4", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.\n2. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who"}, {"id": "card_n_af3760588f5f", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxx: Thou art now ready to die, and yet hast thou not attained to that perfect sim...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Thou art now ready to die, and yet hast thou not attained to that perfect simplicity: thou art yet subject to many troubles and perturbations; not yet free from all fear and suspicion of external acci"}, {"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_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_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_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_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_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_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_1b6fc0a79c10", "title": "Ignatius to the Magnesians VII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "As therefore the Lord did nothing without the Father, being united to Him, neither by Himself nor by the apostles, so neither do ye anything without the bishop and presbyters. Neither endeavour that a"}, {"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_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_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_c3b275f1ced5", "title": "Belgic Art. 16: Eternal Election", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe that, all the posterity of Adam being thus fallen into perdition by the sin of our first parents, God then did manifest himself such as he is — that is to say, merciful and just: merciful, "}, {"id": "card_n_da84dadb3845", "title": "Psalm 53 — Psalm 53", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of \"Mahalath.\" A contemplation by David.>> The fool has said in his heart, \"There is no God.\" They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one"}, {"id": "card_n_76413f9f7d97", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_021: \"What say ye to me, O ye gainsayers that I was speaking unto, who yet believe...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"What say ye to me, O ye gainsayers that I was speaking unto, who yet believe Moses to have been the holy servant of God, and his books the oracles of the Holy Ghost? Is not this house of God, not coe"}]}