olneyhymn/westminster-daily

{"content":[{"abbv":"wcf","body":"The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him as their blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.","chapter":"7","citation":"WCF 7.1","long_citation":"Confession of Faith 7.1","name":"Confession of Faith","paragraph":"1","prooftexts":{},"section_title":"","title":"Chapter 7: Of God's Covenant with Man","type":"confession"}],"content_with_prooftexts":[{"abbv":"wcf","body":"The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him as their blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.<sup id='fnref:wcf1'><a href='#fn:wcf1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup>","chapter":"7","citation":"WCF 7.1","long_citation":"Confession of Faith 7.1","name":"Confession of Faith","paragraph":"1","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 40:13-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040013.01-1\">Who has measured the Spirit of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or what man shows him his counsel?<br />\n Whom did he consult,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and who made him understand?<br />\nWho taught him the path of justice,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and taught him knowledge,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and showed him the way of understanding?<br />\n Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and are accounted as the dust on the scales;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.<br />\n Lebanon would not suffice for fuel,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.<br />\n All the nations are as nothing before him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 9:32-33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18009032.01-2\">For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that we should come to trial together.<br />\n There is no arbiter between us,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who might lay his hand on us both.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 2:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09002025.01-3\">If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, who can intercede for him?&#8221; But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> to put them to death.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 113:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19113005.01-4\">Who is like the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who is seated on high,<br />\n who looks far down<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on the heavens and the earth?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 100:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19100002.01-5\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>Serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> with gladness!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Come into his presence with singing!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19100003.01-5\">Know that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, he is God!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>It is he who made us, and we are his;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 22:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18022002.01-6\">&#8220;Can a man be profitable to God?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.<br />\n Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 35:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18035007.01-7\">If you are righteous, what do you give to him?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Or what does he receive from your hand?<br />\n Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your righteousness a son of man.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 17:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42017010.01-8\"><span class=\"woc\">So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, &#8216;We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.&#8217;&#8221;</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017024.01-9\">The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.  (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"},"section_title":"","title":"Chapter 7: Of God's Covenant with Man","type":"confession"}],"feed":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title></title>\n\n</head>\n<body>\n<h5 class=\"mb-0 header\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Confession of Faith</h5>\n<h5 class=\"text-muted mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Chapter 7: Of God's Covenant with Man</h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">1.</span> The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him as their blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.<sup id=\"fnref:wcf1\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup></p>\n    <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n        <ol class=\"disc\">\n        \n            <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n                <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 40:13-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040013.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Who has measured the Spirit of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or what man shows him his counsel?\n Whom did he consult,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and who made him understand?\nWho taught him the path of justice,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and taught him knowledge,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and showed him the way of understanding?\n Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and are accounted as the dust on the scales;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.\n Lebanon would not suffice for fuel,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.\n All the nations are as nothing before him,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Job 9:32-33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18009032.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that we should come to trial together.\n There is no arbiter between us,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who might lay his hand on us both.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Samuel 2:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p09002025.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, who can intercede for him?\u201d But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> to put them to death.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 113:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19113005.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Who is like the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who is seated on high,\n who looks far down\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on the heavens and the earth?</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 100:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19100002.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>Serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> with gladness!\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Come into his presence with singing!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19100003.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Know that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, he is God!\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>It is he who made us, and we are his;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Job 22:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18022002.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cCan a man be profitable to God?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.\n Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Job 35:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18035007.01-7\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">If you are righteous, what do you give to him?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Or what does he receive from your hand?\n Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your righteousness a son of man.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Luke 17:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p42017010.01-8\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, \u2018We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.\u2019\u201d</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 17:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44017024.01-9\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.  (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n            </li>\n        \n        </ol>\n    </div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","title":"Of God's covenant with man, part 1"}