Merge pull request '1.2' (#23) from 1.2 into main

Reviewed-on: #23

.gitignore

@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 
 ###> symfony/framework-bundle ###
-/.env
-/.env.local
-/.env.local.php
-/.env.*.local
+/.env*
 /config/secrets/prod/prod.decrypt.private.php
 /public/bundles/
 /var/

Dockerfile

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ RUN apt update && \
     libpng-dev \
     libjpeg-dev \
     libicu-dev \
+    libpq-dev \
     sqlite3 \
     curl \
     git \
@@ -25,7 +26,9 @@ RUN docker-php-ext-install \
     pcntl \
     bcmath \
     xml \
-    intl
+    intl \
+    pdo_mysql \
+    pdo_pgsql
 
 RUN php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');" && \
     php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer && \
@@ -45,11 +48,9 @@ RUN rm -rf /var/www/html/translations
 
 RUN COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 composer install --no-scripts --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
 RUN mkdir /data
-COPY data/data.db /data/data.db
 
 RUN mkdir /var/www/html/var/cache
 RUN mkdir /var/www/html/var/log
-#RUN symfony console asset-map:compile
 
 RUN chown -R 33:33 /var/www/html /data
 RUN chmod -R 755 /var/www/html /data

assets/styles/style.css

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ body {
   width: 100%;
   height: 100%;
   border: black solid 1px;
-  border-radius: 3px;
+  border-radius: 0.375em;
   box-shadow: 0 2px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
 }
 

assets/styles/style.css.map

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assets/styles/style.scss

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ body {
     width: 100%;
     height: 100%;
     border: black solid 1px;
-    border-radius: 3px;
+    border-radius: 0.375em;
     box-shadow: 0 2px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
 }
 

compose.yaml

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-version: '3'
-
-services:
-###> doctrine/doctrine-bundle ###
-  database:
-    image: postgres:${POSTGRES_VERSION:-16}-alpine
-    environment:
-      POSTGRES_DB: ${POSTGRES_DB:-app}
-      # You should definitely change the password in production
-      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-!ChangeMe!}
-      POSTGRES_USER: ${POSTGRES_USER:-app}
-    healthcheck:
-      test: ["CMD", "pg_isready -U ${POSTGRES_USER:-app}"]
-      timeout: 5s
-      retries: 5
-      start_period: 60s
-    volumes:
-      - database_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data:rw
-      # You may use a bind-mounted host directory instead, so that it is harder to accidentally remove the volume and lose all your data!
-      # - ./docker/db/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data:rw
-###< doctrine/doctrine-bundle ###
-
-volumes:
-###> doctrine/doctrine-bundle ###
-  database_data:
-###< doctrine/doctrine-bundle ###

composer.json

@@ -15,37 +15,37 @@
         "erusev/parsedown": "^1.7",
         "phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock": "^5.4",
         "phpstan/phpdoc-parser": "^1.28",
-        "symfony/asset": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/asset-mapper": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/console": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/debug-bundle": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/doctrine-messenger": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/dotenv": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/expression-language": "7.3.*",
+        "symfony/asset": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/asset-mapper": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/console": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/debug-bundle": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/doctrine-messenger": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/dotenv": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/expression-language": "7.4.*",
         "symfony/flex": "^2",
-        "symfony/form": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/framework-bundle": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/http-client": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/intl": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/mailer": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/mime": "7.3.*",
+        "symfony/form": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/framework-bundle": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/http-client": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/intl": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/mailer": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/mime": "7.4.*",
         "symfony/monolog-bundle": "^3.0",
-        "symfony/notifier": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/process": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/property-access": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/property-info": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/runtime": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/security-bundle": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/serializer": "7.3.*",
+        "symfony/notifier": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/process": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/property-access": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/property-info": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/runtime": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/security-bundle": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/serializer": "7.4.*",
         "symfony/stimulus-bundle": "^2.17",
-        "symfony/string": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/translation": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/twig-bundle": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/uid": "7.3.*",
+        "symfony/string": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/translation": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/twig-bundle": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/uid": "7.4.*",
         "symfony/ux-turbo": "^2.17",
-        "symfony/validator": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/web-link": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/yaml": "7.3.*",
+        "symfony/validator": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/web-link": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/yaml": "7.4.*",
         "twig/extra-bundle": "^2.12|^3.0",
         "twig/twig": "^2.12|^3.0"
     },
@@ -96,16 +96,16 @@
     "extra": {
         "symfony": {
             "allow-contrib": false,
-            "require": "7.3.*"
+            "require": "7.4.*"
         }
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "phpunit/phpunit": "^9.5",
-        "symfony/browser-kit": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/css-selector": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/maker-bundle": "^1.0",
+        "symfony/browser-kit": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/css-selector": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/maker-bundle": "^1.65",
         "symfony/phpunit-bridge": "^7.2",
-        "symfony/stopwatch": "7.3.*",
-        "symfony/web-profiler-bundle": "7.3.*"
+        "symfony/stopwatch": "7.4.*",
+        "symfony/web-profiler-bundle": "7.4.*"
     }
 }

docker/compose.mariadb.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+services:
+  sermon-notes:
+    image: gitea.rkprather.com/ryan/sermon-notes:latest
+    container_name: sermon-notes
+    hostname: sermon-notes
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    env_file: .env
+    ports:
+      - ${HTTP_PORT}:80
+    volumes:
+      - ${PWD}/.env:/var/www/html/.env
+    depends_on:
+      - db
+
+  db:
+    image: mariadb
+    container_name: db
+    hostname: db
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    env_file: .env
+    volumes:
+      - ${PWD}/db_data:/var/lib/mysql

docker/compose.mysql.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+services:
+  sermon-notes:
+    image: gitea.rkprather.com/ryan/sermon-notes:latest
+    container_name: sermon-notes
+    hostname: sermon-notes
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    env_file: .env
+    ports:
+      - ${HTTP_PORT}:80
+    volumes:
+      - ${PWD}/.env:/var/www/html/.env
+    depends_on:
+      - db
+
+  db:
+    image: mysql
+    container_name: db
+    hostname: db
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    env_file: .env
+    volumes:
+      - ${PWD}/db-data:/var/lib/mysql

docker/compose.pgsql.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+services:
+  sermon-notes:
+    container_name: sermon-notes
+    image: gitea.rkprather.com/ryan/sermon-notes:latest
+    hostname: sermon-notes
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    env_file: .env
+    ports:
+      - ${HTTP_PORT}:80
+    volumes:
+      - ${PWD}/.env:/var/www/html/.env
+    depends_on:
+      - db
+
+  db:
+    image: postgres:17
+    container_name: db
+    hostname: db
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    env_file: .env
+    volumes:
+      - ${PWD}/db-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+    

docker/compose.shared-db.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+services:
+  sermon-notes:
+    image: gitea.rkprather.com/ryan/sermon-notes:latest
+    container_name: sermon-notes
+    hostname: sermon-notes
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    env_file: .env
+    ports:
+      - ${HTTP_PORT}:80
+    volumes:
+      - ${PWD}/.env:/var/www/html/.env

docker/compose.sqlite.yml

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 services:
   sermon-notes:
+    image: gitea.rkprather.com/ryan/sermon-notes:latest
     container_name: sermon-notes
-    image: gitea.rkprather.com/ryan/sermon-notes:1.1
+    hostname: sermon-notes
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    env_file: .env
     ports:
-      - 80:80
+      - ${HTTP_PORT}:80
     volumes:
       - ${PWD}/data:/data
       - ${PWD}/.env:/var/www/html/.env
-    restart: unless-stopped

importmap.php

@@ -16,17 +16,17 @@ return [
         'path' => './assets/app.js',
         'entrypoint' => true,
     ],
-    '@hotwired/stimulus' => [
-        'version' => '3.2.2',
-    ],
     '@symfony/stimulus-bundle' => [
         'path' => './vendor/symfony/stimulus-bundle/assets/dist/loader.js',
     ],
+    '@hotwired/stimulus' => [
+        'version' => '3.2.2',
+    ],
     '@hotwired/turbo' => [
-        'version' => '7.3.0',
+        'version' => '8.0.20',
     ],
     'jquery' => [
-        'version' => '3.3.1',
+        'version' => '3.7.1',
     ],
     'jquery-ui' => [
         'version' => '1.14.1',

install.php

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+#!/usr/local/bin/php
+
+<?php
+
+print "Updating packages and compiling assets".PHP_EOL;
+`COMPOSE_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 composer update`;
+`symfony console asset-map:compile`;
+
+print "Creating database schema".PHP_EOL;
+`symfony console doctrine:database:create`;
+
+print "Updating migrations and setting permissions for data folder".PHP_EOL;
+`symfony console doctrine:migrations:migrate --no-interaction`;
+
+`chown -R www-data:www-data /data`;
+
+// import reference material
+
+print "Importing Bible and Eccumenical Creeds".PHP_EOL;
+`symfony console app:ingest-bible /var/www/html/reference/esv-bible`;
+`symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/creeds/Apostles 'Apostles Creed' creed apc`;
+`symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/creeds/Athanasian 'Athanasian Creed' creed ath`;
+`symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/creeds/Chalcedon 'Definition of Chalcedon' creed dc`;
+`symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/creeds/French 'French Confession' creed fc`;
+`symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/creeds/Nicene 'Nicene Creed' creed nc`;
+
+$dutchStandards = (
+    strtolower(
+        readline("Do you want to import the Dutch standards (Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism, Canons of Dort) (y/n)? ")
+    ) == 'y'
+);
+
+if ($dutchStandards) {
+    print "Importing Dutch Standards".PHP_EOL;
+    `symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/bc Belgic belgic BC{\$ndx}`;
+    `symfony console app:import-heidelberg`;
+    `symfony console app:import-canons-of-dort`;
+}
+
+$westminsterStandards = (
+    strtolower(
+        readline("Do you want to import the Westminster Standards (y/n)? ")
+    ) == 'y'
+);
+
+if ($westminsterStandards) {
+    print "Importing Westminster Standards".PHP_EOL;
+    `symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/wcf 'Westminster Confession' wcf WCF{\$ndx}`;
+    `symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/wsc 'Westminster Shorter' wsc WSC{\$ndx}`;
+    `symfony console app:import-wlc /var/www/html/references/wlc 'Westminster Larger' wlc WLC{\$ndx}`;
+}
+
+$helviticConfessions = (
+    strtolower(
+        readline("Do you want to import the Helvetic Confessions (1st & 2nd) (y/n)? ")
+    ) == 'y'
+);
+
+if ($helviticConfessions) {
+    print "Importing Helvitic standards".PHP_EOL;
+    `symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/fhc 'First Helvetic Confession' 1hc 1HC{\$ndx}`;
+    `symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/shc 'Second Helvetic Confession' 2hc 2HC{\$ndx}`;
+}
+
+$miscStandards = (
+    strtolower(
+        readline("Do you want to import the misc other standards (39 Articles, Augsberg Confession, London Baptist Confession, Luther's Small and Large Catechism, and Savoy Declaration) (y/n)? ")
+    ) == 'y'
+);
+
+if ($miscStandards) {
+    print "Importing misc standards".PHP_EOL;
+    `symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/39a 'Thirty-Nine Articles' 39a 39A{\$ndx}`;
+    `symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/ac 'Augsberg Confession' agc AGC{\$ndx}`;
+    `symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/lbc 'London Baptist Confession' lbc LBC{\$ndx}`;
+    `symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/lsc 'Luther\'s Small Catechism' lsc LSC`;
+    `symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/llc 'Luther\'s Large Catechism' llc LLC`;
+    `symfony console app:import-ref /var/www/html/references/sd 'Savoy Declaration' sd SD{\$ndx}`;
+}
+
+print "Sermon Notes Ready".PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL;

install.sh

@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-if [ ! -f /var/www/html/.env ]; then
-    exit 0
-fi
-
-echo "APP_ENV=prod" > .env
-echo "APP_DEBUG=0" >> .env
-
-LENGTH=32
-
-SECRET_KEY=$(openssl rand -base64 $LENGTH | tr -d '=' | tr -d '+' | tr -d '/' | tr -d ' ')
-TRIMMED_KEY=$(cut -c1-32 <<< $SECRET_KEY)
-echo "APP_SECRET=$TRIMMED_KEY" >> .env
-echo "DATABASE_URL=\"sqlite:////data/data.db\"" >> .env
-echo "MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN=doctrine://default?auto_setup=0" >> .env
-
-COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 composer update
-symfony console asset-map:compile
-symfony console doctrine:migrations:migrate --no-interaction
-
-chown -R www-data:www-data /data

references/39a/Article 1.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 1 - Of Faith in the Holy Trinity
+There is but one living and true God, ever- lasting, without body, parts, or passions; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness; the Maker, and Preserver of all things both visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead there be three Persons, of one substance, power, and eternity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 10 - Of Free-Will
+The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God: Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 11 - Of the Justification of Man
+We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings: Wherefore, that we are justified by Faith only is a most wholesome Doctrine, and very full of comfort, as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification.

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 12 - Of Good Works
+Albeit that Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God’s Judgement; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively Faith; insomuch that by them a lively Faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit.

references/39a/Article 13.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 13 - Of Works before Justification
+Works done before the grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the School-authors say) deserve grace of congruity: yea rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin.

references/39a/Article 14.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 14 - Of Works of Supererogation
+Voluntary Works besides, over, and above, God’s Commandments, which they call Works of Supererogation, cannot be taught without arrogancy and impiety: for by them men do declare, that they do not only render unto God as much as they are bound to do, but that they do more for his sake, than of bounden duty is required: whereas Christ saith plainly, When ye have done all that are commanded to you, say, We are unprofitable servants.

references/39a/Article 15.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 15 - Of Christ alone without Sin
+Christ in the truth of our nature was made like unto us in all things, sin only except, from which he was clearly void, both in his flesh, and in his spirit. He came to be the Lamb without spot, who, by sacrifice of himself once made, should take away the sins of the world, and sin, as Saint John saith, was not in him. But all we the rest, although baptized, and born again in Christ, yet offend in many things; and if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

references/39a/Article 16.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 16 - Of Sin after Baptism
+Not every deadly sin willingly committed after Baptism is sin against the Holy Ghost, and unpardonable. Wherefore the grant of repentance is not to be denied to such as fall into sin after Baptism. After we have received the Holy Ghost, we may depart from grace given, and fall into sin, and by the grace of God we may arise again, and amend our lives. And therefore they are to be condemned, which say, they can no more sin as long as they live here, or deny the place of forgiveness to such as truly repent.

references/39a/Article 17.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 17 - Of Predestination and Election
+Predestination to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour. Wherefore, they which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God be called according to God’s purpose by his Spirit working in due season: they through Grace obey the calling: they be justified freely: they be made sons of God by adoption: they be made like the image of his only-begotten Son Jesus Christ: they walk religiously in good works, and at length, by God’s mercy, they attain to everlasting felicity.
+
+As the godly consideration of Predestination, and our Election in Christ, is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh, and their earthly members, and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things, as well because it doth greatly establish and confirm their faith of eternal Salvation to be enjoyed through Christ, as because it doth fervently kindle their love towards God: So, for curious and carnal persons, lacking the Spirit of Christ, to have continually before their eyes the sentence of God’s Predestination, is a most dangerous downfall, whereby the Devil doth thrust them either into desperation, or into wretchlessness of most unclean living, no less perilous than desperation.
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+Furthermore, we must receive God’s promises in such wise, as they be generally set forth to us in holy Scripture: and, in our doings, that Will of God is to be followed, which we have expressly declared unto us in the Word of God.

references/39a/Article 18.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 18 - Of obtaining eternal Salvation only by the Name of Christ
+They also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.

references/39a/Article 19.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 19 - Of the Church
+The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ’s ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
+
+As the Church of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch, have erred; so also the Church of Rome hath erred, not only in their living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters of Faith.

references/39a/Article 2.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 2 - Of the Word or Son of God, which was made very Man
+The Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of one substance with the Father, took Man’s nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance: so that two whole and perfect Natures, that is to say, the Godhead and Manhood, were joined together in one Person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God, and very Man; who truly suffered, was crucified, dead, and buried, to reconcile his Father to us, and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for all actual sins of men.

references/39a/Article 20.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 20 - Of the Authority of the Church
+The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith: And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God’s Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the Church be a witness and a keeper of holy Writ, yet, as it ought not to decree any thing against the same, so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation.

references/39a/Article 21.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 21 - Of the Authority of General Councils
+General Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.

references/39a/Article 22.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 22 - Of Purgatory
+The Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, Worshipping, and Adoration, as well of Images as of Reliques, and also invocation of Saints, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God.

references/39a/Article 23.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 23 - Of Ministering in the Congregation
+It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of publick preaching, or ministering the Sacraments in the Congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same.
+
+And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have publick authority given unto them in the Congregation, to call and send Ministers into the Lord’s vineyard.

references/39a/Article 24.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 24 - Of speaking in the Congregation in such a tongue as the people understandeth
+It is a thing plainly repugnant to the Word of God, and the custom of the Primitive Church, to have publick Prayer in the Church, or to minister the Sacraments in a tongue not understanded of the people.

references/39a/Article 25.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 25 - Of the Sacraments
+Sacraments ordained of Christ be not only badges or tokens of Christian men’s profession, but rather they be certain sure witnesses, and effectual signs of grace, and God’s good will towards us, by the which he doth work invisibly in us, and doth not only quicken, but also strengthen and confirm our Faith in him.
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+There are two Sacraments ordained of Christ our Lord in the Gospel, that is to say, Baptism, and the Supper of the Lord.
+
+Those five commonly called Sacraments, that is to say, Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles, partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures; but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper, for that they have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God.
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+The Sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed upon, or to be carried about, but that we should duly use them. And in such only as worthily receive the same they have a wholesome effect or operation: but they that receive them unworthily purchase to themselves damnation, as Saint Paul saith.

references/39a/Article 26.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 26 - Of the Unworthiness of the Ministers, which hinders not the effect of the Sacrament
+Although in the visible Church the evil be ever mingled with the good, and sometimes the evil have chief authority in the Ministration of the Word and Sacraments, yet forasmuch as they do not the same in their own name, but in Christ’s, and do minister by his commission and authority, we may use their Ministry, both in hearing the Word of God, and in receiving of the Sacraments. Neither is the effect of Christ’s ordinance taken away by their wickedness, nor the grace of God’s gifts diminished from such as by faith and rightly do receive the Sacraments ministered unto them; which be effectual, because of Christ’s institution and promise, although they be ministered by evil men.
+
+Nevertheless, it appertaineth to the discipline of the Church, that inquiry be made of evil Ministers, and that they be accused by those that have knowledge of their offences; and finally being found guilty, by just judgement be deposed.

references/39a/Article 27.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 27 - Of Baptism
+Baptism is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened, but it is also a sign of Regeneration or new Birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive Baptism rightly are grafted into the Church; the promises of forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be the sons of God by the Holy Ghost, are visibly signed and sealed; Faith is confirmed, and Grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God. The Baptism of young Children is in any wise to be retained in the Church, as most agreeable with the institution of Christ.

references/39a/Article 28.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 28 - Of the Lord’s Supper
+The Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another; but rather is a Sacrament of our Redemption by Christ’s death: insomuch that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith, receive the same, the Bread which we break is a partaking of the Body of Christ; and likewise the Cup of Blessing is a partaking of the Blood of Christ.
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+Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by holy Writ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.
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+The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.
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+The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper was not by Christ’s ordinance reserved, carried about, lifted up, or worshipped.

references/39a/Article 29.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 29 - Of the Wicked which eat not the Body of Christ in the use of the Lord’s Supper
+The Wicked, and such as be void of a lively faith, although they do carnally and visibly press with their teeth (as Saint Augustine saith) the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ: but rather, to their condemnation, do eat and drink the sign or Sacrament of so great a thing.

references/39a/Article 3.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 3 - Of the going down of Christ into Hell
+As Christ died for us, and was buried, so also is it to be believed, that he went down into Hell.

references/39a/Article 30.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 30 - Of both kinds
+The Cup of the Lord is not to be denied to the Lay-people: for both the parts of the Lord’s Sacrament, by Christ’s ordinance and commandment, ought to be ministered to all Christian men alike.

references/39a/Article 31.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 31 - Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross
+The Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone. Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.

references/39a/Article 32.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 32 - Of the Marriage of Priests
+Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, are not commanded by God’s Law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage: therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.

references/39a/Article 33.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 33 - Of Excommunicate Persons, how they are to be avoided
+That person which by open denunciation of the Church is rightly cut off from the unity of the Church, and excommunicated, ought to be taken of the whole multitude of the faithful, as an Heathen and Publican, until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the Church by a Judge that hath authority thereunto.

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 34 - Of the Traditions of the Church
+It is not necessary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one, and utterly like; for at all times they have been divers, and may be changed according to the diversities of countries, times, and men’s manners, so that nothing be ordained against God’s Word. Whosoever through his private judgement, willingly and purposely, doth openly break the traditions and ceremonies of the Church, which be not repugnant to the Word of God, and be ordained and approved by common authority, ought to be rebuked openly, (that others may fear to do the like,) as he that offendeth against the common order of the Church, and hurteth the authority of the Magistrate, and woundeth the consciences of the weak brethren.
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+Every particular or national Church hath authority to ordain, change, and abolish, ceremonies or rites of the Church ordained only by man’s authority, so that all things be done to edifying.

references/39a/Article 35.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 35 - Of the Homilies
+The second Book of Homilies, the several titles whereof we have joined under this Article, doth contain a godly and wholesome Doctrine, and necessary for these times, as doth the former Book of Homilies, which were set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth; and therefore we judge them to be read in Churches by the Ministers, diligently and distinctly, that they may be understanded of the people.
+
+Of the Names of the Homilies
+
+Of the right Use of the Church.
+Against peril of Idolatry.
+Of repairing and keeping clean of Churches.
+Of good Works: first of Fasting.
+Against Gluttony and Drunkenness.
+Against Excess of Apparel.
+Of Prayer.
+Of the Place and Time of Prayer.
+That Common Prayers and Sacraments ought to be ministered in a known tongue.
+Of the reverend estimation of God’s Word.
+Of Alms-doing.
+Of the Nativity of Christ.
+Of the Passion of Christ.
+Of the Resurrection of Christ.
+Of the worthy receiving of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ.
+Of the Gifts of the Holy Ghost.
+For the Rogation-days.
+Of the State of Matrimony.
+Of Repentance.
+Against Idleness.
+Against Rebellion.

references/39a/Article 36.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 36 - Of Consecration of Bishops and Ministers
+The Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops, and Ordering of Priests and Deacons, lately set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth, and confirmed at the same time by authority of Parliament, doth contain all things necessary to such Consecration and Ordering: neither hath it any thing, that of itself is superstitious and ungodly. And therefore whosoever are consecrated or ordered according to the Rites of that Book, since the second year of the forenamed King Edward unto this time, or hereafter shall be consecrated or ordered according to the same Rites; we decree all such to be rightly, orderly, and lawfully consecrated and ordered.

references/39a/Article 37.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 37 - Of the Civil Magistrates
+The King’s Majesty hath the chief power in this Realm of England, and other his Dominions, unto whom the chief Government of all Estates of this Realm, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil, in all causes doth appertain, and is not, nor ought to be, subject to any foreign Jurisdiction.
+Where we attribute to the King’s Majesty the chief government, by which Titles we understand the minds of some slanderous folks to be offended; we give not to our Princes the ministering either of God’s Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly
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+Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil-doers.
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+The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Realm of England.
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+The Laws of the Realm may punish Christian men with death, for heinous and grievous offences.
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+It is lawful for Christian men, at the commandment of the Magistrate, to wear weapons, and serve in the wars.

references/39a/Article 38.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 38 - Of Christian men’s Goods, which are not common
+The Riches and Goods of Christians are not common, as touching the right, title, and possession of the same, as certain Anabaptists do falsely boast. Notwithstanding, every man ought, of such things as he possesseth, liberally to give alms to the poor, according to his ability.

references/39a/Article 39.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 39 - Of a Christian man’s Oath
+As we confess that vain and rash Swearing is forbidden Christian men by our Lord Jesus Christ, and James his Apostle, so we judge, that Christian Religion doth not prohibit, but that a man may swear when the Magistrate requireth, in a cause of faith and charity, so it be done according to the Prophet’s teaching, in justice, judgement, and truth.

references/39a/Article 4.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 4 - Of the Resurrection of Christ
+Christ did truly rise again from death, and took again his body, with flesh, bones, and all things appertaining to the perfection of Man’s nature; wherewith he ascended into Heaven, and there sitteth, until he return to judge all Men at the last day.

references/39a/Article 5.md

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 5 - Of the Holy Ghost
+The Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, is of one substance, majesty, and glory, with the Father and the Son, very and eternal God.

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 6 - Of the Sufficiency of the holy Scriptures for salvation
+Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation. In the name of the holy Scripture we do understand those Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament, of whose authority was never any doubt in the Church.
+
+Of the Names and Number of the Canonical Books
+Genesis
+Exodus
+Leviticus
+Numbers
+Deuteronomy
+Joshua
+Judges
+Ruth
+The First Book of Samuel
+The Second Book of Samuel
+The First Book of Kings
+The Second Book of Kings
+The First Book of Chronicles
+The Second Book of Chronicles
+The First Book of Esdras
+The Second Book of Esdras
+The Book of Esther
+The Book of Job
+The Psalms
+The Proverbs
+Ecclesiastes or Preacher
+Cantica, or Songs of Solomon
+Four Prophets the greater
+Twelve Prophets the less
+
+And the other Books (as Hierome saith) the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners; but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine; such are these following:
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+The Third Book of Esdras
+The Fourth Book of Esdras
+The Book of Tobias
+The Book of Judith
+The rest of the Book of Esther
+The Book of Wisdom
+Jesus the Son of Sirach
+Baruch the Prophet
+The Song of the Three Children
+The Story of Susanna
+Of Bel and the Dragon
+The Prayer of Manasses
+The First Book of Maccabees
+The Second Book of Maccabees
+
+All the Books of the New Testament, as they are commonly received, we do receive, and account them Canonical.

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 7 - Of the Old Testament
+The Old Testament is not contrary to the New: for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to Mankind by Christ, who is the only Mediator between God and Man, being both God and Man. Wherefore they are not to be heard, which feign that the old Fathers did look only for transitory promises. Although the Law given from God by Moses, as touching Ceremonies and Rites, do not bind Christian men, nor the Civil precepts thereof ought of necessity to be received in any commonwealth; yet notwithstanding, no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the Commandments which are called Moral.

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 8 - Of the Three Creeds
+The Three Creeds, Nicene Creed, Athanasius’s Creed, and that which is commonly called the Apostles’ Creed, ought thoroughly to be received and believed: for they may be proved by most certain warrants of holy Scripture.

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+# 39-Articles
+## Article 9 - Of Original or Birth-sin
+Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is ingendered of the offspring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserveth God’s wrath and damnation. And this infection of nature doth remain, yea in them that are regenerated; whereby the lust of the flesh, called in the Greek, "Φρόνημα σαρκὸς", which some do expound the wisdom, some sensuality, some the affection, some the desire, of the flesh, is not subject to the Law of God. And although there is no condemnation for them that believe and are baptized, yet the Apostle doth confess, that concupiscence and lust hath of itself the nature of sin.

references/ac/Abuses Reviewed.md

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Articles In Which Are Reviewed The Abuses Which Have Been Corrected.
+1] Inasmuch, then, as our churches dissent in no article of the faith from the Church Catholic, but only omit some abuses which are new, and which have been erroneously accepted by the corruption of the times, contrary to the intent of the Canons, we pray that Your Imperial Majesty would graciously hear both what has been changed, and what were the reasons why the people were not compelled to observe those abuses against their conscience. 2] Nor should Your Imperial Majesty believe those who, in order to excite the hatred of men against our part, disseminate strange slanders among the people. 3] Having thus excited the minds of good men, they have first given occasion to this controversy, and now endeavor, by the same arts, to increase the discord. 4] For Your Imperial Majesty will undoubtedly find that the form of doctrine and of ceremonies with us is not so intolerable as these ungodly and malicious men represent. 5] Besides, the truth cannot be gathered from common rumors or the revilings of enemies. 6] But it can readily be judged that nothing would serve better to maintain the dignity of ceremonies, and to nourish reverence and pious devotion among the people than if the ceremonies were observed rightly in the churches.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article I: Of God.
+1] Our Churches, with common consent, do teach that the decree of the Council of Nicaea concerning the Unity of the Divine Essence and concerning the Three Persons, is true and to be believed without any doubting; 2] that is to say, there is one Divine Essence which is called and which is God: eternal, without body, without parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the Maker and Preserver of all things, visible and invisible; and 3] yet there are three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are coeternal, the Father the Son, and the Holy Ghost. And the term "person" 4] they use as the Fathers have used it, to signify, not a part or quality in another, but that which subsists of itself. 5] They condemn all heresies which have sprung up against this article, as the Manichaeans, who assumed two principles, one Good and the other Evil: also the Valentinians, Arians, Eunomians, Mohammedans, and all such. 6] They condemn also the Samosatenes, old and new, who, contending that there is but one Person, sophistically and impiously argue that the Word and the Holy Ghost are not distinct Persons, but that "Word" signifies a spoken word, and "Spirit" signifies motion created in things.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article X: Of Lord’s Supper.
+1] Of the Supper of the Lord they teach that the Body and Blood of Christ are truly present, and are distributed 2] to those who eat the Supper of the Lord; and they reject those that teach otherwise.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article XI: Of Confession.
+1] Of Confession they teach that Private Absolution ought to be retained in the churches, although in confession 2] an enumeration of all sins is not necessary. For it is impossible according to the Psalm: Who can understand his errors? Ps. 19, 12.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article XII: Of Repentance.
+1] Of Repentance they teach that for those who have fallen after Baptism there is remission of sins whenever they are converted 2] and that the Church ought to impart absolution to those thus returning to repentance. Now, repentance consists properly of these 3] two parts: One is contrition, that is, 4] terrors smiting the conscience through the knowledge of sin; the other is faith, which is born of 5] the Gospel, or of absolution, and believes that for Christ's sake, sins are forgiven, comforts 6] the conscience, and delivers it from terrors. Then good works are bound to follow, which are the fruits of repentance. 7] They condemn the Anabaptists, who deny that those once justified can lose the Holy Ghost. Also those who contend that some may attain to such 8] perfection in this life that they cannot sin. 9] The Novatians also are condemned, who would not absolve such as had fallen after Baptism, though they returned to repentance. 10] They also are rejected who do not teach that remission of sins comes through faith but command us to merit grace through satisfactions of our own.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article XIII: Of the Use of the Sacraments.
+1] Of the Use of the Sacraments they teach that the Sacraments were ordained, not only to be marks of profession among men, but rather to be signs and testimonies of the will of God 2] toward us, instituted to awaken and confirm faith in those who use them. Wherefore we must so use the Sacraments that faith be added to believe the promises which are offered and set forth through the Sacraments. 3] They therefore condemn those who teach that the Sacraments justify by the outward act, and who do not teach that, in the use of the Sacraments, faith which believes that sins are forgiven, is required.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article XIV: Of Ecclesiastical Order.
+Of Ecclesiastical Order they teach that no one should publicly teach in the Church or administer the Sacraments unless he be regularly called.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article XV: Of Ecclesiastical Usages.
+1] Of Usages in the Church they teach that those ought to be observed which may be observed without sin, and which are profitable unto tranquillity and good order in the Church, as particular holy days, festivals, and the like. 2] Nevertheless, concerning such things men are admonished that consciences are not to be burdened, as though such observance was necessary to salvation. 3] They are admonished also that human traditions instituted to propitiate God, to merit grace, and to make satisfaction for sins, are opposed to the Gospel and the doctrine of faith. Wherefore vows and traditions concerning meats and 4] days, etc., instituted to merit grace and to make satisfaction for sins, are useless and contrary to the Gospel.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article XVI: Of Civil Affairs.
+1] Of Civil Affairs they teach that lawful civil ordinances are good works of God, and that 2] it is right for Christians to bear civil office, to sit as judges, to judge matters by the Imperial and other existing laws, to award just punishments, to engage in just wars, to serve as soldiers, to make legal contracts, to hold property, to make oath when required by the magistrates, to marry a wife, to be given in marriage. 3] They condemn the Anabaptists who forbid these civil offices to Christians. 4] They condemn also those who do not place evangelical perfection in the fear of God and in faith, but in forsaking civil offices, for 5] the Gospel teaches an eternal righteousness of the heart. Meanwhile, it does not destroy the State or the family, but very much requires that they be preserved as ordinances of God, and that charity be practiced in such 6] ordinances. Therefore, Christians are necessarily bound to obey their own magistrates 7] and laws save only when commanded to sin; for then they ought to obey God rather than men. Acts 5, 29.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article XVII: Of Christ’s Return to Judgment.
+1] Also they teach that at the Consummation of the World Christ will appear for judgment, and 2] will raise up all the dead; He will give to the godly and elect eternal life and everlasting joys, 3] but ungodly men and the devils He will condemn to be tormented without end. 4] They condemn the Anabaptists, who think that there will be an end to the punishments of condemned men and devils. 5] They condemn also others who are now spreading certain Jewish opinions, that before the resurrection of the dead the godly shall take possession of the kingdom of the world, the ungodly being everywhere suppressed.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article XVIII: Of Free Will.
+1] Of Free Will they teach that man's will has some liberty to choose civil righteousness, and to work 2] things subject to reason. But it has no power, without the Holy Ghost, to work the righteousness of God, that is, spiritual righteousness; since the natural man 3] receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, 1 Cor. 2, 14; but this righteousness is wrought in the heart when the Holy Ghost is received 4] through the Word. These things are said in as many words by Augustine in his Hypognosticon, Book III: We grant that all men have a free will, free, inasmuch as it has the judgment of reason; not that it is thereby capable, without God, either to begin, or, at least, to complete aught in things pertaining to God, but only in works of this life, whether good 5] or evil. "Good" I call those works which spring from the good in nature, such as, willing to labor in the field, to eat and drink, to have a friend, to clothe oneself, to build a house, to marry a wife, to raise cattle, to learn divers useful arts, or whatsoever good 6] pertains to this life. For all of these things are not without dependence on the providence of God; yea, of Him and through Him they are and have their being. "Evil" 7] I call such works as willing to worship an idol, to commit murder, etc. 8] They condemn the Pelagians and others, who teach that without the Holy Ghost, by the power of nature alone, we are able to love God above all things; also to do the commandments of God as touching "the substance of the act." For, although nature is able in a manner to do the outward work, 9] (for it is able to keep the hands from theft and murder,) yet it cannot produce the inward motions, such as the fear of God, trust in God, chastity, patience, etc.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article XIX: Of the Cause of Sin.
+Of the Cause of Sin they teach that, although God does create and preserve nature, yet the cause of sin is the will of the wicked, that is, of the devil and ungodly men; which will, unaided of God, turns itself from God, as Christ says John 8, 44: When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article II: Of Original Sin.
+1] Also they teach that since the fall of Adam all men begotten in the natural way are born with sin, that is, without the fear of God, without trust in God, and with 2] concupiscence; and that this disease, or vice of origin, is truly sin, even now condemning and bringing eternal death upon those not born again through Baptism and the Holy Ghost. 3] They condemn the Pelagians and others who deny that original depravity is sin, and who, to obscure the glory of Christ's merit and benefits, argue that man can be justified before God by his own strength and reason.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article XXI: Of the Worship of the Saints.
+1] Of the Worship of Saints they teach that the memory of saints may be set before us, that we may follow their faith and good works, according to our calling, as the Emperor may follow the example of David in making war to drive away the Turk from his country. 2] For both are kings. But the Scripture teaches not the invocation of saints or to ask help of saints, since it sets before us the one Christ as the Mediator, Propitiation, High Priest, and Intercessor. 3] He is to be prayed to, and has promised that He will hear our prayer; and this worship He approves above all, to wit, that in all afflictions He be called upon, 1 John 2, 1: 4] If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, etc. 5] This is about the Sum of our Doctrine, in which, as can be seen, there is nothing that varies from the Scriptures, or from the Church Catholic, or from the Church of Rome as known from its writers. This being the case, they judge harshly who insist that our teachers be regarded as heretics. 6] There is, however, disagreement on certain Abuses, which have crept into the Church without rightful authority. And even in these, if there were some difference, there should be proper lenity on the part of bishops to bear with us by reason of the Confession which we have now reviewed; because even the Canons are not so severe as to demand the same rites everywhere, neither, at any time, have the rites of all churches been the same; 7] although, among us, in large part, the ancient rites are diligently observed. 8] For it is a false and malicious charge that all the ceremonies, all the things instituted of old, are abolished in our churches. 9] But it has been a common complaint that some abuses were connected with the ordinary rites. These, inasmuch as they could not be approved with a good conscience, have been to some extent corrected.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article XXII: Of Both Kinds in the Sacrament.
+1] To the laity are given Both Kinds in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, because this usage has the commandment of the Lord in Matt. 26, 27: Drink ye all of it, 2] where Christ has manifestly commanded concerning the cup that all should drink. 3] And lest any man should craftily say that this refers only to priests, Paul in 1 Cor. 11, 27 recites an example from which it appears that the whole congregation did use both kinds. 4] And this usage has long remained in the Church, nor is it known when, or by whose authority, it was changed; although Cardinal Cusanus mentions the time 5] when it was approved. Cyprian in some places testifies that the blood was given to the people. 6] The same is testified by Jerome, who says: The priests administer the Eucharist, and distribute the blood of Christ to the people. Indeed, Pope Gelasius 7] commands that the Sacrament be not divided (dist. II., De Consecratione, cap. Comperimus). 8] Only custom, not so ancient, has it otherwise. But it is evident 9] that any custom introduced against the commandments of God is not to be allowed, as the Canons witness (dist. III., cap. Veritate, and the following chapters). 10] But this custom has been received, not only against the Scripture, but also against the old Canons 11] and the example of the Church. Therefore, if any preferred to use both kinds of the Sacrament, they ought not to have been compelled with offense to their consciences to do otherwise. And because the division 12] of the Sacrament does not agree with the ordinance of Christ, we are accustomed to omit the procession, which hitherto has been in use.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article XXIII: Of the Marriage of Priests.
+1] There has been common complaint concerning the examples of priests who were not chaste. 2] For that reason also Pope Pius is reported to have said that there were certain causes why marriage was taken away from priests, but that there were far weightier ones why it ought to be given back; for so Platina writes. 3] Since, therefore, our priests were desirous to avoid these open scandals, they married wives, and taught that it was lawful for them to contract matrimony. First, because 4] Paul says, 1 Cor. 7, 2. 9: To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife. Also: It is better to marry than to burn. Secondly 5] Christ says, Matt. 19, 11: All men cannot receive this saying, where He teaches that not all men are fit to lead a single life; for God created man for procreation, Gen. 1, 28. 6] Nor is it in man's power, without a singular gift and work of God, to alter this creation. [For it is manifest, and many have confessed that no good, honest, chaste life, no Christian, sincere, upright conduct has resulted (from the attempt), but a horrible, fearful unrest and torment of conscience has been felt by many until the end.] Therefore, 7] those who are not fit to lead a single life ought to 8] contract matrimony. For no man's law, no vow, can annul the commandment and ordinance of God. For these reasons 9] the priests teach that it is lawful for them to marry wives. 10] It is also evident that in the ancient Church priests were married men. 11] For Paul says, 1 Tim. 3, 2, that a bishop should be chosen who is the husband of one wife. 12] And in Germany, four hundred years ago for the first time, the priests were violently compelled to lead a single life, who indeed offered such resistance that the Archbishop of Mayence, when about to publish the Pope's decree concerning this matter, was almost killed in the tumult raised by the enraged priests. 13] And so harsh was the dealing in the matter that not only were marriages forbidden for the future, but also existing marriages were torn asunder, contrary to all laws, divine and human, contrary even to the Canons themselves, made not only by the Popes, but by most celebrated Synods. [Moreover, many God‐fearing and intelligent people in high station are known frequently to have expressed misgivings that such enforced celibacy and depriving men of marriage (which God Himself has instituted and left free to men) has never produced any good results, but has brought on many great and evil vices and much iniquity.) 14] Seeing also that, as the world is aging, man's nature is gradually growing weaker, it is well to guard that no more vices steal into Germany. 15] Furthermore, God ordained marriage to be a help against human infirmity. 16] The Canons themselves say that the old rigor ought now and then, in the latter times, to be relaxed because of the weakness of men; which it is to be wished were done also in this matter. 17] And it is to be expected that the churches shall at some time lack pastors if marriage is any longer forbidden. 18] But while the commandment of God is in force, while the custom of the Church is well known, while impure celibacy causes many scandals, adulteries, and other crimes deserving the punishments of just magistrates, yet it is a marvelous thing that in nothing is more cruelty exercised than against 19] the marriage of priests. God has given commandment to honor marriage. By the laws of all 20] well‐ordered commonwealths, even among the heathen, marriage is most highly honored. 21] But now men, and that, priests, are cruelly put to death, contrary to the intent of the Canons, for no other cause than 22] marriage. Paul, in 1 Tim. 4, 3, calls that a doctrine of devils which forbids marriage. 23] This may now be readily understood when the law against marriage is maintained by such penalties. 24] But as no law of man can annul the commandment of God, so neither can it be done by any vow. 25] Accordingly, Cyprian also advises that women who do not keep the chastity they have promised should marry. His words are these (Book I, Epistle XI): But if they be unwilling or unable to persevere, it is better for them to marry than to fall into the fire by their lusts; they should certainly give no offense to their brethren and sisters. 26] And even the Canons show some leniency toward those who have taken vows before the proper age, as heretofore has generally been the case.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article XXV: Of Confession.
+1] Confession in the churches is not abolished among us; for it is not usual to give the body of the Lord, except to them that have been previously examined and absolved. And 2] the people are most carefully taught concerning faith in the absolution, about which formerly there 3] was profound silence. Our people are taught that they should highly prize the absolution, as being the voice of God, 4] and pronounced by God's command. The power of the Keys is set forth in its beauty and they are reminded what great consolation it brings to anxious consciences, also, that God requires faith to believe such absolution as a voice sounding from heaven, and that such faith in Christ truly obtains and receives the forgiveness of sins. Aforetime satisfactions were immoderately extolled; 5] of faith and the merit of Christ and the righteousness of faith no mention was made; wherefore, on this point, our churches are by no means to be blamed. For this even our adversaries must needs concede 6] to us that the doctrine concerning repentance has been most diligently treated and laid open by our teachers. 7] But of Confession they teach that an enumeration of sins is not necessary, and that consciences be not burdened with anxiety to enumerate all sins, for it is impossible to recount all sins, as the Psalm 19, 13 testifies: Who can understand his errors? Also Jeremiah, 17, 9: 8] The heart is deceitful; who can know it? But if no sins were forgiven, except those that are recounted, 9] consciences could never find peace; for very many sins they neither see 10] nor can remember. The ancient writers also testify that an enumeration is not necessary. For in the Decrees, Chrysostom is quoted, 11] who says thus: I say not to you that you should disclose yourself in public, nor that you accuse yourself before others, but I would have you obey the prophet who says: "Disclose thy way before God." Therefore confess your sins before God, the true Judge, with prayer. Tell your errors, not with the tongue, but with the memory of your conscience, etc. 12] And the Gloss (Of Repentance, Distinct. V, Cap. Consideret) admits that Confession is of human right only [not commanded by Scripture, but ordained by the Church]. 13] Nevertheless, on account of the great benefit of absolution, and because it is otherwise useful to the conscience, Confession is retained among us.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article III: Of the Son of God.
+1] Also they teach that the Word, that is, the Son of God, did assume the human nature in 2] the womb of the blessed Virgin Mary, so that there are two natures, the divine and the human, inseparably enjoined in one Person, one Christ, true God and true man, who was born of the Virgin Mary, truly suffered, was crucified, dead, and 3] buried, that He might reconcile the Father unto us, and be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for all actual sins of men. 4] He also descended into hell, and truly rose again the third day; afterward He ascended into heaven that He might sit on the right hand of the Father, and forever reign and have dominion over all creatures, and sanctify 5] them that believe in Him, by sending the Holy Ghost into their hearts, to rule, comfort, and quicken them, and to defend them against the devil and the power of sin. 6] The same Christ shall openly come again to judge the quick and the dead, etc., according to the Apostles' Creed.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article IV: Of Justification.
+1] Also they teach that men cannot be justified before God by their own strength, merits, or works, but are freely justified for 2] Christ's sake, through faith, when they believe that they are received into favor, and that their sins are forgiven for Christ's sake, who, by His death, has made satisfaction for our sins. 3] This faith God imputes for righteousness in His sight. Rom. 3 and 4.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article V: Of the Ministry.
+1] That we may obtain this faith, the Ministry of Teaching the Gospel and administering the Sacraments was instituted. For through the Word and Sacraments, as through instruments, 2] the Holy Ghost is given, who works faith; where and when it pleases God, in them that hear 3] the Gospel, to wit, that God, not for our own merits, but for Christ's sake, justifies those who believe that they are received into grace for Christ's sake. 4] They condemn the Anabaptists and others who think that the Holy Ghost comes to men without the external Word, through their own preparations and works.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article VI: Of New Obedience.
+1] Also they teach that this faith is bound to bring forth good fruits, and that it is necessary to do good works commanded by God, because of God's will, but that we should not rely on those works to merit justification 2] before God. For remission of sins and justification is apprehended by faith, as also the voice of Christ attests: When ye shall have done all these things, say: We are unprofitable servants. Luke 17, 10. The same is also taught by 3] the Fathers. For Ambrose says: It is ordained of God that he who believes in Christ is saved, freely receiving remission of sins,  without works, by faith alone.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article VII: Of the Church.
+1] Also they teach that one holy Church is to continue forever. The Church is the congregation of saints, in which the Gospel is rightly taught and the Sacraments are rightly administered. 2] And to the true unity of the Church it is enough to agree concerning the doctrine of the Gospel and 3] the administration of the Sacraments. Nor is it necessary that human traditions, that is, rites or ceremonies, instituted by men, should be everywhere alike. 4] As Paul says: One faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of all, etc. Eph. 4, 5. 6.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article VIII: What the Church Is.
+1] Although the Church properly is the congregation of saints and true believers, nevertheless, since in this life many hypocrites and evil persons are mingled therewith, it is lawful to use Sacraments administered by evil men, according to the saying of Christ: The Scribes and 2] the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat, etc. Matt. 23, 2. Both the Sacraments and Word are effectual by reason of the institution and commandment of Christ, notwithstanding they be administered by evil men. 3] They condemn the Donatists, and such like, who denied it to be lawful to use the ministry of evil men in the Church, and who thought the ministry of evil men to be unprofitable and of none effect.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Article IX: Of Baptism.
+1] Of Baptism they teach that it is necessary 2] to salvation, and that through Baptism is offered the grace of God, and that children are to be baptized who, being offered to God through Baptism are received into God's grace. 3] They condemn the Anabaptists, who reject the baptism of children, and say that children are saved without Baptism.

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+# Augsberg Confession
+## Conclusion.
+1] These are the chief articles which seem to be in controversy. For although we might have spoken of more abuses, yet, to avoid undue length, we have set forth the chief points, from which the rest may be readily judged. 2] There have been great complaints concerning indulgences, pilgrimages, and the abuse of excommunications. The parishes have been vexed in many ways by the dealers in indulgences. There were endless contentions between the pastors and the monks concerning the parochial right, confessions, burials, sermons on extraordinary occasions, and 3] innumerable other things. Issues of this sort we have passed over so that the chief points in this matter, having been briefly set forth, might be the more readily understood. 4] Nor has anything been here said or adduced to the reproach of any one. 5] Only those things have been recounted whereof we thought that it was necessary to speak, in order that it might be understood that in doctrine and ceremonies nothing has been received on our part against Scripture or the Church Catholic. For it is manifest that we have taken most diligent care that no new and ungodly doctrine should creep into our churches. 6] The above articles we desire to present in accordance with the edict of Your Imperial Majesty, in order to exhibit our Confession and let men see a summary of the doctrine of our teachers. 7] If there is anything that any one might desire in this Confession, we are ready, God willing, to present ampler information according to the Scriptures.

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 1: The Only God
+
+We all believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths that there is a single and simple spiritual being, whom we call God—eternal,incomprehensible, invisible, unchangeable, infinite, almighty; completely wise, just, and good, and the overflowing source of all good.

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 10: The Deity of Christ
+
+We believe that Jesus Christ, according to his divine nature, is the only Son of God—eternally begotten, not made nor created, for then he would be a creature. He is one in essence with the Father; coeternal; the exact image of the person of the Father and the “reflection of his glory,”<sup>13</sup> being in all things like him. He is the Son of God not only from the time he assumed our nature but from all eternity, as the following testimonies teach us when they are taken together. Moses says that God “created the world”;<sup>14</sup> and John says that “all things were created by the Word,”<sup>15</sup> which he calls God. The letter to the Hebrews says that “God made the world by his Son.”<sup>16</sup> Paul says that “God created all things by Jesus Christ.”<sup>17</sup> And so it must follow that he who is called God, the Word, the Son, and Jesus Christ already existed when all things were created by him. Therefore the prophet Micah says that his origin is “from ancient times, from eternity.”<sup>18</sup> And Hebrews says that he has “neither beginning of days nor end of life.”<sup>19</sup> So then, he is the true eternal God, the Almighty, whom we invoke, worship, and serve.
+
+<sup>13</sup>[Col. 1:15](/get-passage/Colossians+1:15); [Heb. 1:3](/get-passage/Hebrews+1:3)
+<sup>14</sup>[Gen. 1:1](/get-passage/Genesis+1:1)
+<sup>15</sup>[John 1:3](/get-passage/John+1:3)
+<sup>16</sup>[Heb. 1:2](/get-passage/Hebrews+1:2)
+<sup>17</sup>[Col. 1:16](/get-passage/Colossians+1:16)
+<sup>18</sup>[Mic. 5:2](/get-passage/Micah+5:2)
+<sup>19</sup>[Heb. 7:3](/get-passage/Hebrews+7:3)

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 11: The Deity of the Holy Spirit
+
+We believe and confess also that the Holy Spirit proceeds eternally from the Father and the Son—neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but only proceeding from the two of them. In regard to order, he is the third person of the Trinity—of one and the same essence, and majesty, and glory, with the Father and the Son. He is true and eternal God, as the Holy Scriptures teach us.

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 12: The Creation of All Things
+
+We believe that the Father created heaven and earth and all other creatures from nothing, when it seemed good to him, by his Word—that is to say, by his Son. He has given all creatures their being, form, and appearance, and their various functions for serving their Creator. Even now he also sustains and governs them all, according to his eternal providence, and by his infinite power, that they may serve man, in order that man may serve God. He has also created the angels good, that they might be his messengers and serve his elect. Some of them have fallen from the excellence in which God created them into eternal perdition; and the others have persisted and remained in their original state, by the grace of God. The devils and evil spirits are so corrupt that they are enemies of God and of everything good. They lie in wait for the church and every member of it like thieves, with all their power, to destroy and spoil everything by their deceptions. So then, by their own wickedness they are condemned to everlasting damnation, daily awaiting their torments. For that reason we detest the error of the Sadducees, who deny that there are spirits and angels, and also the error of the Manicheans, who say that the devils originated by themselves, being evil by nature, without having been corrupted.

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 13: The Doctrine of God’s Providence
+
+We believe that this good God, after he created all things, did not abandon them to chance or fortune but leads and governs them according to his holy will, in such a way that nothing happens in this world without his orderly arrangement. Yet God is not the author of, nor can he be charged with, the sin that occurs. For his power and goodness are so great and incomprehensible that he arranges and does his work very well and justly even when the devils and wicked men act unjustly. We do not wish to inquire with undue curiosity into what he does that surpasses human understanding and is beyond our ability to comprehend. But in all humility and reverence we adore the just judgments of God, which are hidden from us, being content to be Christ’s disciples, so as to learn only what he shows us in his Word, without going beyond those limits. This doctrine gives us unspeakable comfort since it teaches us that nothing can happen to us by chance but only by the arrangement of our gracious heavenly Father. He watches over us with fatherly care, keeping all creatures under his control, so that not one of the hairs on our heads (for they are all numbered) nor even a little bird can fall to the ground without the will of our Father.<sup>20</sup> In this thought we rest, knowing that he holds in check the devils and all our enemies, who cannot hurt us without his permission and will. For that reason we reject the damnable error of the Epicureans, who say that God involves himself in nothing and leaves everything to chance.
+
+<sup>20</sup>[Matt. 10:29–30](/get-passage/Matthews+10:29-30)

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 14: The Creation and Fall of Man
+
+We believe that God created man from the dust of the earth and made and formed him in his image and likeness—good, just, and holy; able by his own will to conform in all things to the will of God. But when he was in honor he did not understand it<sup>21</sup> and did not recognize his excellence. But he subjected himself willingly to sin and consequently to death and the curse, lending his ear to the word of the devil. For he transgressed the commandment of life, which he had received, and by his sin he separated himself from God, who was his true life, having corrupted his entire nature. So he made himself guilty and subject to physical and spiritual death, having become wicked, perverse, and corrupt in all his ways. He lost all his excellent gifts which he had received from God, and he retained none of them except for small traces which are enough to make him inexcusable. Moreover, all the light in us is turned to darkness, as the Scripture teaches us: “The light shone in the darkness, and the darkness did not receive it.”<sup>22</sup> Here John calls men “darkness.” Therefore we reject everything taught to the contrary concerning man’s free will, since man is nothing but the slave of sin and cannot do a thing unless it is “given him from heaven.”<sup>23</sup> For who can boast of being able to do anything good by himself, since Christ says, “No one can come to me unless my Father who sent me draws him”?<sup>24</sup> Who can glory in his own will when he understands that “the mind of the flesh is enmity against God”?<sup>25</sup> Who can speak of his own knowledge in view of the fact that “the natural man does not understand the things of the Spirit of God”?<sup>26</sup> In short, who can produce a single thought, since he knows that we are “not able to think a thing” about ourselves, by ourselves, but that “our ability is from God”?<sup>27</sup> And therefore, what the apostle says ought rightly to stand fixed and firm: “God works within us both to will and to do according to his good pleasure.”<sup>28</sup> For there is no understanding nor will conforming to God’s understanding and will apart from Christ’s work, as he teaches us when he says, “Without me you can do nothing.”<sup>29</sup>
+
+<sup>21</sup>[Ps. 49:20](/get-passage/Psalm+49:20)
+<sup>22</sup>[John 1:5](/get-passage/John+1:5)
+<sup>23</sup>[John 3:27](/get-passage/John+3:27)
+<sup>24</sup>[John 6:44](/get-passage/John+6:44)
+<sup>25</sup>[Rom. 8:7](/get-passage/Romans+8:7)
+<sup>26</sup>[1 Cor. 2:14](/get-passage/1+Corintians+2:14)
+<sup>27</sup>[2 Cor. 3:5](/get-passage/2+Corinthians+3:5)
+<sup>28</sup>[Phil. 2:13](/get-passage/Philippians+2:13)
+<sup>29</sup>[John 15:5](/get-passage/John+15:5)

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 15: The Doctrine of Original Sin
+
+We believe that by the disobedience of Adam original sin has been spread through the whole human race.<sup>30</sup> It is a corruption of all nature—an inherited depravity which even infects small infants in their mother’s womb, and the root which produces in man every sort of sin. It is therefore so vile and enormous in God’s sight that it is enough to condemn the human race, and it is not abolished or wholly uprooted even by baptism, seeing that sin constantly boils forth as though from a contaminated spring. Nevertheless, it is not imputed to God’s children for their condemnation but is forgiven by his grace and mercy—not to put them to sleep but so that the awareness of this corruption might often make believers groan as they long to be set free from the “body of this death.”<sup>31</sup> Therefore we reject the error of the Pelagians who say that this sin is nothing else than a matter of imitation.
+
+<sup>30</sup>[Rom. 5:12–13](/get-passage/Romans+5:12-13)
+<sup>31</sup>[Rom. 7:24](/get-passage/Romans+7:24)

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 16: The Doctrine of Election
+
+We believe that—all Adam’s descendants having thus fallen into perdition and ruin by the sin of the first man—God showed himself to be as he is: merciful and just. He is merciful in withdrawing and saving from this perdition those whom he, in his eternal and unchangeable counsel, has elected and chosen in Jesus Christ our Lord by his pure goodness, without any consideration of their works. He is just in leaving the others in their ruin and fall into which they plunged themselves.

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 17: The Recovery of Fallen Man
+
+We believe that our good God, by his marvelous wisdom and goodness, seeing that man had plunged himself in this manner into both physical and spiritual death and made himself completely miserable, set out to find him, though man, trembling all over, was fleeing from him. And he comforted him, promising to give him his Son, “born of a woman,”<sup>32</sup> to crush the head of the serpent,<sup>33</sup> and to make him blessed.
+
+<sup>32</sup>[Gal. 4:4](/get-passage/Galatians+4:4)
+<sup>33</sup>[Gen. 3:15](/get-passage/Genesis+3:15)

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 18: The Incarnation
+
+So then we confess that God fulfilled the promise which he had made to the early fathers by the mouth of his holy prophets when he sent his only and eternal Son into the world at the time set by him. The Son took the “form of a servant” and was made in the “likeness of man,”<sup>34</sup> truly assuming a real human nature, with all its weaknesses, except for sin; being conceived in the womb of the blessed virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit, without male participation. And he not only assumed human nature as far as the body is concerned but also a real human soul, in order that he might be a real human being. For since the soul had been lost as well as the body he had to assume them both to save them both together. Therefore we confess, against the heresy of the Anabaptists who deny that Christ assumed human flesh from his mother, that he “shared the very flesh and blood of children”;<sup>35</sup> that he is “fruit of the loins of David” according to the flesh;<sup>36</sup> “born of the seed of David” according to the flesh;<sup>37</sup> “fruit of the womb of the virgin Mary”;<sup>38</sup> “born of a woman”;<sup>39</sup> “the seed of David”;<sup>40</sup> “a shoot from the root of Jesse”;<sup>41</sup> “the offspring of Judah,”<sup>42</sup> having descended from the Jews according to the flesh; “from the seed of Abraham”—for he “assumed Abraham’s seed” and was “made like his brothers except for sin.”<sup>43</sup> In this way he is truly our Immanuel—that is: “God with us.”<sup>44</sup>
+
+<sup>34</sup>[Phil. 2:7](/get-passage/Philippians+2:7)
+<sup>35</sup>[Heb. 2:14](/get-passage/Hebrews+2:14)
+<sup>36</sup>[Acts 2:30](/get-passage/Acts+2:30)
+<sup>37</sup>[Rom. 1:3](/get-passage/Romans+1:3)
+<sup>38</sup>[Luke 1:42](/get-passage/Luke+1:42)
+<sup>39</sup>[Gal. 4:4](/get-passage/Galatians+4:4)
+<sup>40</sup>[2 Tim. 2:8](/get-passage/2+Timothy+2:8)
+<sup>41</sup>[Rom. 15:12](/get-passage/Romans+15:12)
+<sup>42</sup>[Heb. 7:14](/get-passage/Hebrews+7:14)
+<sup>43</sup>[Heb. 2:17](/get-passage/Hebrews+2:17); [4:15](/get-passage/Hebrews+4:15)
+<sup>44</sup>[Matt. 1:23](/get-passage/Matthew+1:23)

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 19: The Two Natures of Christ
+
+We believe that by being thus conceived the person of the Son has been inseparably united and joined together with human nature, in such a way that there are not two Sons of God, nor two persons, but two natures united in a single person, with each nature retaining its own distinct properties. Thus his divine nature has always remained uncreated, “without beginning of days or end of life,”<sup>45</sup> filling heaven and earth. His human nature has not lost its properties but continues to have those of a creature—it has a beginning of days; it is of a finite nature and retains all that belongs to a real body. And even though he, by his resurrection, gave it immortality, that nonetheless did not change the reality of his human nature; for our salvation and resurrection depend also on the reality of his body. But these two natures are so united together in one  person that they are not even separated by his death. So then, what he committed to his Father when he died was a real human spirit which left his body. But meanwhile his divine nature remained united with his human nature even when he was lying in the grave; and his deity never ceased to be in him, just as it was in him when he was a little child, though for a while it did not show itself as such. These are the reasons why we confess him to be true God and true man—true God in order to conquer death by his power, and true man that he might die for us in the weakness of his flesh.
+
+<sup>45</sup>[Heb. 7:3](/get-passage/Hebrews+7:3)

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 2: The Means by Which We Know God
+
+We know him by two means: First, by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe, since that universe is before our eyes like a beautiful book in which all creatures, great and small, are as letters to make us ponder the invisible things of God: his eternal power and his divinity, as the apostle Paul says in Romans 1:20. All these things are enough to convict men and to leave them without excuse. Second, he makes himself known to us more openly by his holy and divine Word, as much as we need in this life, for his glory and for the salvation of his own.

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 20: The Justice and Mercy of God in Christ
+
+We believe that God—who is perfectly merciful and also very just—sent his Son to assume the nature in which the disobedience had been committed, in order to bear in it the punishment of sin by his most bitter passion and death. So God made known his justice toward his Son, who was charged with our sin, and he poured out his goodness and mercy on us, who are guilty and worthy of damnation, giving to us his Son to die, by a most perfect love, and raising him to life for our justification, in order that by him we might have immortality and eternal life.

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 21: The Atonement
+
+We believe that Jesus Christ is a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek—made such by an oath—and that he presented himself in our name before his Father, to appease his wrath with full satisfaction by offering himself on the tree of the cross and pouring out his precious blood for the cleansing of our sins, as the prophets had predicted. For it is written that “the chastisement of our peace” was placed on the Son of God and that “we are healed by his wounds.” He was “led to death as a lamb”; he was “numbered among sinners”<sup>46</sup> and condemned as a criminal by Pontius Pilate, though Pilate had declared that he was innocent. So he paid back what he had not stolen,<sup>47</sup> and he suffered—the “just for the unjust,”<sup>48</sup> in both his body and his soul—in such a way that when he sensed the horrible punishment required by our sins his sweat became like “big drops of blood falling on the ground.”<sup>49</sup> He cried, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”<sup>50</sup> And he endured all this for the forgiveness of our sins. Therefore we rightly say with Paul that we “know nothing but Jesus and him crucified”;<sup>51</sup> we consider all things as “dung for the excellence of the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”<sup>52</sup> We find all comforts in his wounds and have no need to seek or invent any other means to reconcile ourselves with God than this one and only sacrifice, once made, which renders believers perfect forever. This is also why the angel of God called him Jesus—that is, “Savior”—because he would save his people from their sins.<sup>53</sup>
+
+<sup>46</sup>[Isa. 53:4–12](/get-passage/Isaiah+53:4-12)
+<sup>47</sup>[Ps. 69:4](/get-passage/Psalms+69:4)
+<sup>48</sup>[1 Pet. 3:18](/get-passage/1+Peter+3:18)
+<sup>49</sup>[Luke 22:44](/get-passage/Luke+22:44)
+<sup>50</sup>[Matt. 27:46](/get-passage/Matthew+27:46)
+<sup>51</sup>[1 Cor. 2:2](/get-passage/1+Corinthians+2:2)
+<sup>52</sup>[Phil. 3:8](/get-passage/Philippians+3:8)
+<sup>53</sup>[Matt. 1:21](/get-passage/Matthew+1:21)

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 22: The Righteousness of Faith
+
+We believe that for us to acquire the true knowledge of this great mystery the Holy Spirit kindles in our hearts a true faith that embraces Jesus Christ, with all his merits, and makes him its own, and no longer looks for anything apart from him. For it must necessarily follow that either all that is required for our salvation is not in Christ or, if all is in him, then he who has Christ by faith has his salvation entirely.Therefore, to say that Christ is not enough but that something else is needed as well is a most enormous blasphemy against God—for it then would follow that Jesus Christ is only half a Savior. And therefore we justly say with Paul that we are justified “by faith alone” or by faith “apart from works.”<sup>54</sup> However, we do not mean, properly speaking, that it is faith itself that justifies us—for faith is only the instrument by which we embrace Christ, our righteousness. But Jesus Christ is our righteousness crediting to us all his merits and all the holy works he has done for us and in our place. And faith is the instrument that keeps us in communion with him and with all his benefits. When those benefits are made ours they are more than enough to absolve us of our sins.
+
+<sup>54</sup>[Rom. 3:28](/get-passage/Romans+3:28)

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+# Belgic Confession
+## Article 23: The Justification of Sinners
+
+We believe that our blessedness lies in the forgiveness of our sins because of Jesus Christ, and that in it our righteousness before God is contained, as David and Paul teach us when they declare that man blessed to whom God grants righteousness apart from works.<sup>55</sup> And the same apostle says that we are justified “freely” or “by grace” through redemption in Jesus Christ.<sup>56</sup> And therefore we cling to this foundation, which is firm forever, giving all glory to God, humbling ourselves, and recognizing ourselves as we are; not claiming a thing for ourselves or our merits and leaning and resting only on the obedience of Christ crucified, which is ours when we believe in him. That is enough to cover all our sins and to make us confident, freeing the conscience from the fear, dread, and terror of God’s approach, without doing what our first father, Adam, did, who trembled as he tried to cover himself with fig leaves. In fact, if we had to appear before God relying—no matter how little—on ourselves or some other creature, then, alas, we would be swallowed up. Therefore everyone must say with David: “Lord, do not enter into judgment with your servants, for before you no living person shall be justified.”<sup>57</sup>
+
+<sup>55</sup>[Ps. 32:1](/get-passage/Psalms+32:1); [Rom. 4:6](/get-passage/Romans+4:6)
+<sup>56</sup>[Rom. 3:24](/get-passage/Romans+3:24)
+<sup>57</sup>[Ps. 143:2](/get-passage/Psalms+143:2)