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Article 2: The Means by Which We Know God
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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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