{"passage":["Matthew 12:3–4"],"results":[{"document":"lbcf1677","id":"22.8","url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1677/paragraphs/22.8","segments":[{"text":"of necessity and mercy.","proofs":["Matthew 12:1–13"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"21.8","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/21.8","segments":[{"text":"but also are taken up the whole time, in the publique and private Exercises of his Worship, and in the Duties of necessity, and mercy.","proofs":["Matthew 12:1–13"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"21.8","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/21.8","segments":[{"text":"but also are taken up the whole time, in the public and private Exercises of his Worship, and in the Duties of necessity, and mercy.","proofs":["Matthew 12:1–13"]}]},{"document":"bc1695","id":"65","url":"/api/v1/documents/bc1695/questions/65","segments":[{"text":"except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.","proofs":["Matthew 12:1–13"]}]},{"document":"bc1695-modernized","id":"65","url":"/api/v1/documents/bc1695-modernized/questions/65","segments":[{"text":"except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.","proofs":["Matthew 12:1–13"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"117","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/117","segments":[{"text":"and making it our delight to spend the whole time (except so much of it as is to be taken up in works of necessity and mercy)","proofs":["Matthew 12:1–13"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"117","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/117","segments":[{"text":"and making it our delight to spend the whole time (except so much of it as is to be taken up in works of necessity and mercy)","proofs":["Matthew 12:1–13"]}]},{"document":"wsc","id":"60","url":"/api/v1/documents/wsc/questions/60","segments":[{"text":"except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.","proofs":["Matthew 12:1–13"]}]},{"document":"wsc-modernized","id":"60","url":"/api/v1/documents/wsc-modernized/questions/60","segments":[{"text":"except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.","proofs":["Matthew 12:1–13"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"66","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/66","segments":[{"text":"Christs example warrants works of necessity, and works of mercy, but no other,","proofs":["Matthew 12:3–4"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"60","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/60","segments":[{"text":"The works which God doth allow us to do on the Sabbath day, besides what he doth principally command us, are works of necessity and mercy; such as eating, drinking, defending our selves from Enemies, quenching the fire of Houses, visiting the Sick, relieving the Poor, feeding Cattel, and the like, in all which employments we ought not to have a reference chiefly to our selves, or any temporal advantage, but to be as spiritual as may be in them, At that time Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the Corn, and his Disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of Corn and to eat; But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold thy Disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath day: But he said unto them, have ye not read what David did, &c.","proofs":["Matthew 12:1–3"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"Therefore, by the sword of the Spirit, must be understood the Scripture, not the Spirit it self, as some Quakers affirm. It is evident also, from the fourth chapter of Matthew, where Christ being tempted by the Devil, with three different temptations; resists him with three different places of Scripture. And being asked by the Pharisees, why his Disciples did pluck the ears of Corn upon the Sabbath day; answered by Scripture.","proofs":["Matthew 12:1–4"]}]}]}