{"passage":["John 1:9"],"results":[{"document":"bastingius1591","id":"56","url":"/api/v1/documents/bastingius1591/entries/56","segments":[{"text":"The affection and loue of God, which he beareth toward vs in Christ, shall serue vs to this vse: first, to make vs take heed, that no doubting of the mercy and goodnes of God, in forgiuing vs our sinnes, do at any time creepe vpon vs, as if God did not from his hart, truely forgiue vs. Secondly, to driue out al such security, wherby it vsually commeth to passe, that men do carelesly sleepe in their sinnes, considering, that both sinne dwelleth in vs, wherewith we must striue al our life long, and also, that by this readines & goodnes of God, freely to forgiue vs our sinnes, wee are the rather prouoked, more carefully to avoid sinne, according to the doctrine of S. Iohn, who when he had taught, that if we confesse our sinnes, the Lord is faythful, and iust to forgiue vs our sinnes. Least any man might hereupon flatter himselfe in sinne, he meeteth with it by this admonition: Little children,","proofs":["John 1:9"]}]},{"document":"bastingius1591","id":"115","url":"/api/v1/documents/bastingius1591/entries/115","segments":[{"text":"First, that in our whole life, we may more and more acknowledg how forward our nature is to sinne, and soe much the more greedilie","proofs":["John 1:9"]}]},{"document":"ursinus1587","id":"167","url":"/api/v1/documents/ursinus1587/entries/167","segments":[{"text":"First, that al our life-time wee more and more acknowledge the great pronenes of our nature to sin, and so much the more greedily","proofs":["John 1:9"]}]}]}