{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_027: Now are all things", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_207a041c74c6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_018: And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrup...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrupted; which neither were they sovereignly good, nor unless they were good could be corrupted: for if sovereignly good, they "}, {"id": "card_n_aa48e0af3bb9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_027: Now are all things fair that Thou hast made; but behold, Thyself art unuttera...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now are all things fair that Thou hast made; but behold, Thyself art unutterably fairer, that madest all; from whom had not Adam fallen, the brackishness of the sea had never flowed out of him, that i"}, {"id": "card_n_2f98a5c4f9d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_026: What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are. 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But what now is, is not future, but present. 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Therefore when they see that these things are good, Thou seest that they are good; and whatsoever things for Thy sake please, Thou plea"}, {"id": "card_n_79438d46108b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_040: And now will I stand, and become firm in Thee, in my mould, Thy truth; nor wi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now will I stand, and become firm in Thee, in my mould, Thy truth; nor will I endure the questions of men, who by a penal disease thirst for more than they can contain, and say, \"what did God befo"}, {"id": "card_n_370914788e0d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_017: But now when I hear that there be three kinds of questions, \"Whether the thin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But now when I hear that there be three kinds of questions, \"Whether the thing be? what it is? of what kind it is?\" I do indeed hold the images of the sounds of which those words be composed, and that"}, {"id": "card_n_25693c20df48", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_042: And Thou, O God, sawest every thing that Thou hadst made, and, behold, it was...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, O God, sawest every thing that Thou hadst made, and, behold, it was very good. Yea we also see the same, and behold, all things are very good. Of the several kinds of Thy works, when Thou ha"}, {"id": "card_n_cc5267f21052", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_013: There are all things preserved distinctly and under general heads, each havin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There are all things preserved distinctly and under general heads, each having entered by its own avenue: as light, and all colours and forms of bodies by the eyes; by the ears all sorts of sounds; al"}, {"id": "card_n_93a415156425", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_023: Permit me, Lord, to seek further.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Permit me, Lord, to seek further. O my hope, let not my purpose be confounded. For if times past and to come be, I would know where they be. Which yet if I cannot, yet I know, wherever they be, they a"}, {"id": "card_n_f38cd38ffe3e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_070: Affrighted with my sins and the burden of my misery, I had cast in my heart, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Affrighted with my sins and the burden of my misery, I had cast in my heart, and had purposed to flee to the wilderness: but Thou forbadest me, and strengthenedst me, saying, Therefore Christ died for"}]}