{"query": "Easton: Election of Grace", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4a82d606103e", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Scripture speaks (1) of the election of individuals to office or to honour and privilege, e.g., Abraham, Jacob, Saul, David, Solomon, were all chosen by God for the positions they held; so also we"}, {"id": "card_n_158be448b164", "title": "Easton: Works, Good", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The old objection against the doctrine of salvation by grace, that it does away with the necessity of good works, and lowers the sense of their importance (Rom. 6), although it has been answered a tho"}, {"id": "card_c_b61a1156544f", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_e56bdcfc7375", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_6c97a3578462", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 5:31 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_2e9475071fb1", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 13:18; John 15:16 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_db2716b4fa78", "title": "Canons of Dort, Head 1: Of Divine Predestination (Unconditional Election)", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "As all men have sinned in Adam, lie under the curse, and are deserving of eternal death, God would have done no injustice if He had left them all to perish. That some receive the gift of faith from Go"}, {"id": "card_n_024803e7ab8b", "title": "Ephesians 2", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,\n2. in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who"}, {"id": "card_n_de783f2a9744", "title": "Easton: Perseverance of the saints", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Their certain continuance in a state of grace. Once justified and regenerated, the believer can neither totally nor finally fall away from grace, but will certainly persevere therein and attain everla"}, {"id": "card_c_44212fb2af85", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace references Abraham", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Abraham (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_ae7ff52d5ac4", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace references David", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions David (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_a8c9cff6ec10", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace references Saul", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Saul (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_ced4babf8538", "title": "Easton: Gospel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A word of Anglo-Saxon origin, and meaning “God’s spell”, i.e., word of God, or rather, according to others, “good spell”, i.e., good news. It is the rendering of the Greek evangelion, i.e., “good mess"}, {"id": "card_n_129ec8cadc0d", "title": "Ephesians 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:\n2. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ"}, {"id": "card_n_c755a13a48d5", "title": "Easton: Grace, means of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An expression not used in Scripture, but employed (1) to denote those institutions ordained by God to be the ordinary channels of grace to the souls of men. These are the Word, Sacraments, and Prayer."}, {"id": "card_n_4ec2ad99cb08", "title": "Easton: Lot", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. goral, a “pebble”), a small stone used in casting lots (Num. 33:54; Jonah 1:7). The lot was always resorted to by the Hebrews with strictest reference to the interposition of God, and as a metho"}, {"id": "card_n_1138a4180533", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §198: FAITH.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "FAITH. Well, if you will, we will fall to it now; and since you left it with me to state the question, let it be this: How doth the saving grace of God discover itself when it is in the heart of man? "}, {"id": "card_n_d186ec88bbd9", "title": "Easton: Forgiveness of sin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the constituent parts of justification. In pardoning sin, God absolves the sinner from the condemnation of the law, and that on account of the work of Christ, i.e., he removes the guilt of sin,"}, {"id": "card_n_24d6bf70295e", "title": "Romans 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,\n2. which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,\n3. concerning his Son, who was"}, {"id": "card_n_a92ced10dc93", "title": "Easton: Saul", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Asked for. (1.) A king of Edom (Gen. 36:37, 38); called Shaul in 1 Chr. 1:48. (2.) The son of Kish (probably his only son, and a child of prayer, “asked for”), of the tribe of Benjamin, the first king"}]}