{"query": "Easton: Grace", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e90bcaad8cd2", "title": "Amazing Grace", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Amazing grace! How sweet the sound\nThat saved a wretch like me!\nI once was lost, but now am found,\nWas blind, but now I see.\n\n'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,\nAnd grace my fears relieved;\nHow"}, {"id": "card_n_bd5662f9173d", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_07: “My Son, it is better and safer for thee to hide the grace of devotion, and n...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, it is better and safer for thee to hide the grace of devotion, and not to lift thyself up on high, nor to speak much thereof, nor to value it greatly; but rather to despise thyself, and to fe"}, {"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_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_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_n_a7de972699bd", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_15: The Voice of the Beloved Thou oughtest to seek earnestly the grace of devotio...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Beloved Thou oughtest to seek earnestly the grace of devotion, to ask it fervently, to wait for it patiently and faithfully, to receive it gratefully, to preserve it humbly, to work w"}, {"id": "card_c_461d5c547985", "title": "Amazing Grace ↔ Ephesians", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Newton's hymn names grace; Ephesians 2 names what grace did."}, {"id": "card_n_4a546aae8ade", "title": "Easton: Grace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of form or person (Prov. 1:9; 3:22; Ps. 45:2). (2.) Favour, kindness, friendship (Gen. 6:8; 18:3; 19:19; 2 Tim. 1:9). (3.) God’s forgiving mercy (Rom. 11:6; Eph. 2:5). (4.) The gospel as distingu"}, {"id": "card_n_c094f5a89427", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_54: “My Son, pay diligent heed to the motions of Nature and of Grace, because the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, pay diligent heed to the motions of Nature and of Grace, because they move in a very contrary and subtle manner, and are hardly distinguished save by a spiritual and inwardly enlightened man."}, {"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_9c48877af2a6", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §82: The Interpreter answered, This is Christ, who continually, with the oil of his grace, m...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Interpreter answered, This is Christ, who continually, with the oil of his grace, maintains the work already begun in the heart: by the means of which, notwithstanding what the devil can do, the s"}, {"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_06b45d614fc8", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_53: “My Son, precious is My grace, it suffereth not itself to be joined with outw...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, precious is My grace, it suffereth not itself to be joined with outward things, nor with earthly consolations. Therefore thou oughtest to cast away all things which hinder grace, if thou long"}, {"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_4f398f9ca7ec", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_31: O Lord, I still need more grace, if I would arrive where neither man nor any ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord, I still need more grace, if I would arrive where neither man nor any other creature may hinder me. For so long as anything keepeth me back, I cannot freely fly unto Thee. He desired eagerly th"}, {"id": "card_n_274b6d3e5275", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_55: O Lord my God, who hast created me after thine own image and similitude, gran...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord my God, who hast created me after thine own image and similitude, grant me this grace, which Thou hast shown to be so great and so necessary for salvation, that I may conquer my wicked nature, "}, {"id": "card_n_d14241f2dc6a", "title": "Hebrews 4:16", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need."}, {"id": "card_n_f56ff4f41839", "title": "Easton: Unction", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 John 2:20, 27; R.V., “anointing”). Kings, prophets, and priests were anointed, in token of receiving divine grace. All believers are, in a secondary sense, what Christ was in a primary sense, “the "}, {"id": "card_n_1236af2e9995", "title": "Easton: Baal-hanan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lord of grace. (1.) A king of Edom, son of Achbor (Gen. 36:38, 39; 1 Chr. 1:49, 50). (2.) An overseer of “the olive trees and sycomore trees in the low plains” (the Shephelah) under David (1 Chr. 27:2"}]}