{"passage":["John 20:20–23"],"results":[{"document":"wcf1646","id":"30.2","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/30.2","segments":[{"text":"To these Officers, the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven are committed: by vertue whereof, they have power, respectively, to retain, and remit sins; to shut that Kingdom against the impenitent, both by the Word, and Censures; and to open it unto penitent sinners, by the Ministry of the Gospel, and by Absolution from Censures, as occasion shall require.","proofs":["John 20:20–23"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"30.2","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/30.2","segments":[{"text":"To these Officers, the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven are committed: by virtue whereof, they have power, respectively, to retain, and remit sins; to shut that Kingdom against the impenitent, both by the Word, and Censures; and to open it unto penitent sinners, by the Ministry of the Gospel, and by Absolution from Censures, as occasion shall require.","proofs":["John 20:20–23"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680","id":"93","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680/questions/93","segments":[{"text":"When by the Commandment of Christ it is publickly declared to all and every one of the Faithful, that all their Sins are pardoned them of God for the Merit of Christ, so often as they imbrace by a lively Faith the Promise of the Gospel: but contrarily is denounced to all Infidels and Hypocrites, that so long the Wrath of God doth ly on them, as they","proofs":["John 20:21–23"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680","id":"119","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680/questions/119","segments":[{"text":"That one Day in seven be kept in the Worship of God, which under the old Testament was the last Day of the Week, but under the Gospel changed to the first Day of the Week, and this Lord’s Day to be spent in private and publique Devotion, as hearing the Word diligently, practising the Gospel-Sacraments zealously, and doing Deeds of Charity conscionably, and resting from servil Works, cases of necessity excepted, this being the laudable Practice of the holy Apostles, who best knew the Mind of Christ as to the time of Worship; neither do we find in all the new Testament, that any Gospel Church in the Apostles times did set any other Day apart solemnly to worship God, save the first Day: and well might they so do, for if Israel, the natural Seed of Abraham, was to keep the seventh Day, to keep up the Remembrance of their Deliverance out of temporal Bondage, how much more are we bound to keep the first Day in Remembrance of Christ’s Deliverance of us from eternal Bondage?","proofs":["John 20:19–20"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680-modernized","id":"93","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680-modernized/questions/93","segments":[{"text":"When by the Commandment of Christ it is publicly declared to all and every one of the Faithful, that all their Sins are pardoned them of God for the Merit of Christ, so often as they embrace by a lively Faith the Promise of the Gospel: but contrarily is denounced to all Infidels and Hypocrites, that so long the Wrath of God does ly on them, as they","proofs":["John 20:21–23"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680-modernized","id":"119","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680-modernized/questions/119","segments":[{"text":"That one Day in seven be kept in the Worship of God, which under the old Testament was the last Day of the Week, but under the Gospel changed to the first Day of the Week, and this Lord’s Day to be spent in private and public Devotion, as hearing the Word diligently, practising the Gospel-Sacraments zealously, and doing Deeds of Charity conscionably, and resting from servile Works, cases of necessity excepted, this being the laudable Practice of the holy Apostles, who best knew the Mind of Christ as to the time of Worship; neither do we find in all the new Testament, that any Gospel Church in the Apostles times did set any other Day apart solemnly to worship God, save the first Day: and well might they so do, for if Israel, the natural Seed of Abraham, was to keep the seventh Day, to keep up the Remembrance of their Deliverance out of temporal Bondage, how much more are we bound to keep the first Day in Remembrance of Christ’s Deliverance of us from eternal Bondage?","proofs":["John 20:19–20"]}]},{"document":"bc1695","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/bc1695/questions/64","segments":[{"text":"and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian Sabbath.","proofs":["John 20:19–20, 26"]}]},{"document":"bc1695-modernized","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/bc1695-modernized/questions/64","segments":[{"text":"and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian Sabbath.","proofs":["John 20:19–20, 26"]}]},{"document":"heidelberg","id":"83","url":"/api/v1/documents/heidelberg/questions/83","segments":[{"text":"The preaching of the holy gospel,","proofs":["John 20:23"]}]},{"document":"heidelberg","id":"84","url":"/api/v1/documents/heidelberg/questions/84","segments":[{"text":"so long as they are unconverted:— according to which testimony of the gospel, God will judge them, both in this, and the life to come.","proofs":["John 20:21–23"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"85","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/85","segments":[{"text":"It is Repentance manifested by outward signs, to which the word of Absolution coming, makes it a Sacrament misgrounded on,","proofs":["John 20:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"96","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/96","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Receive ye the Holy Ghost,","proofs":["John 20:22"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"(3.) Because, Christ gave to his Apostles the Spirit by breathing it upon them:","proofs":["John 20:22"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"(1) Because, the Lord Jesus Christ hath delivered to the Ministers of his Church, as to his own Delegates and Ambassadours (and therefore according to his own laws) the whole power of Governing the Church, which he himself received from the Father, to be managed, and put in execution in his own name and authority;","proofs":["John 20:21"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"(1) Because, Christ hath committed the keyes of the kingdom of Heaven to the Officers of his Church which are Governours distinct from the civil Magistrate;","proofs":["John 20:21–23"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"(3) Because, to whom Christ has given the power of Governing the church; to them also, he hath promised to give gifts, and enduments largely for performing that office;","proofs":["John 20:21–23"]},{"text":"But to a community of Believers, God has never promised a Spirit for the Ministry, nor gifts for that employment. Nor did he ever bestow, or confer any such enduments. (4) Because, Christ our Mediator, appointed Ecclesiastical Officers and Church-Governours, before ever there was a formal church, under the New Testament gathered, and set up;","proofs":["John 20:21–23"]}]},{"document":"bastingius1591","id":"84","url":"/api/v1/documents/bastingius1591/entries/84","segments":[{"text":"When by the commaundement of Christ, it is openly preached to al and euerie one that beleeueth, that al their sinnes are forgiuen them by God, so oft as they lay hold vpon the promise of the Gospel by a true faith. Contrariwise, vnto all vnbeleeuers and hypocrits it is denounced, that the wrath of God, & euerlasting condemnation lieth vpon them, so long as they continue in their sinnes: According to which testimonie of the Gospell, God will iudge aswell in this present life, as in the life to come.","proofs":["John 20:21–23"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Christ Iesus himselfe,","proofs":["John 20:21"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Some are sent immediately frō God himselfe. So sent, was by God the Father, both Iesus Christ,","proofs":["John 20:21"]}]},{"document":"ursinus1587","id":"96","url":"/api/v1/documents/ursinus1587/entries/96","segments":[{"text":"When by the commaundement of Christ it is publickely declared to all and euerie one of the faithfull, that all their sinnes are pardoned them of God for the merite of Christ, so often as they imbrace by a liuely faith the promise of the Gospel: but contrarily is denounced to all Infidels & hypocrites, that so long the wrath of God and euerlasting damnation doth lie on them, as they persist in their wickednesse: according to which testimonie of the Gospel, God wil iudge them as wel in this life, as in the life to come.","proofs":["John 20:21–23"]}]}]}