{"query": "Pilgrim's Progress §34: It is not the pleasure of the King t", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_1c93f47496a1", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §34: It is not the pleasure of the King that this place should remain so bad.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is not the pleasure of the King that this place should remain so bad. His labourers also have, by the direction of His Majesty's surveyors, been for above these sixteen hundred years employed about"}, {"id": "card_n_11462bbce2a6", "title": "Easton: Megiddo", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Place of troops, originally one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:21), belonged to the tribe of Manasseh (Judg. 1:27), but does not seem to have been fully occupied by the Israelites til"}, {"id": "card_n_8923db647398", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §200: FAITH.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "FAITH. No, not I; I am only for setting things right. But what is the second thing whereby you would prove a discovery of a work of grace in the heart? TALK. Great knowledge of gospel mysteries. FAITH"}, {"id": "card_n_e0fbaa82735e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_055: But by this may more evidently be discerned, wherein pleasure and wherein cur...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But by this may more evidently be discerned, wherein pleasure and wherein curiosity is the object of the senses; for pleasure seeketh objects beautiful, melodious, fragrant, savoury, soft; but curiosi"}, {"id": "card_n_23ddfa0652b0", "title": "Easton: Acts of the Apostles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title now given to the fifth and last of the historical books of the New Testament. The author styles it a “treatise” (1:1). It was early called “The Acts,” “The Gospel of the Holy Ghost,” and “Th"}, {"id": "card_n_74fe8de824a9", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §232: Then was Pickthank sworn, and bid say what he knew, in behalf of their lord the king, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then was Pickthank sworn, and bid say what he knew, in behalf of their lord the king, against the prisoner at the bar. Pickthank's testimony PICK. My Lord, and you gentlemen all, This fellow I have kn"}, {"id": "card_n_ea5ce95a8c6c", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxiii: Let it not be in any man's power, to say truly of thee, that thou art not tru...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Let it not be in any man's power, to say truly of thee, that thou art not truly simple, or sincere and open, or not good. Let him be deceived whosoever he be that shall have any such opinion of thee. 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Who may ascend to Yahweh's "}, {"id": "card_n_4043b9cf7c83", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §276: I saw, then, that they went on their way to a pleasant river; which David the king call...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I saw, then, that they went on their way to a pleasant river; which David the king called \"the river of God\", but John, \"the river of the water of life\". Now their way lay just upon the bank of the ri"}, {"id": "card_n_e5c6211c6d1b", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §323: Leviathan's sturdiness Besides, their king is at their whistle.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Leviathan's sturdiness Besides, their king is at their whistle. He is never out of hearing; and if at any time they be put to the worst, he, if possible, comes in to help them; and of him it is said, "}, {"id": "card_n_4fa28b01ac25", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §376: Though the consciences of such men are awakened, yet their minds are not changed; there...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "1. Though the consciences of such men are awakened, yet their minds are not changed; therefore, when the power of guilt weareth away, that which provoked them to be religious ceaseth, wherefore they n"}, {"id": "card_n_1d4a3d2b0206", "title": "Easton: Chedorlaomer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(= Khudur-Lagamar of the inscriptions), king of Elam. Many centuries before the age of Abraham, Canaan and even the Sinaitic peninsula had been conquered by Babylonian kings, and in the time of Abraha"}, {"id": "card_n_626dcb04f1f2", "title": "Easton: Chushan-rishathaim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cush of double wickedness, or governor of two presidencies, the king of Mesopotamia who oppressed Israel in the generation immediately following Joshua (Judg. 3:8). We learn from the Tell-el-Amarna ta"}, {"id": "card_n_16df043077e1", "title": "Easton: Herod Agrippa I.", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Son of Aristobulus and Bernice, and grandson of Herod the Great. He was made tetrarch of the provinces formerly held by Lysanias II., and ultimately possessed the entire kingdom of his grandfather, He"}, {"id": "card_n_2f05f5f9c92e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_033: Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times? Do I then measure, O my God, and know not what I measure? I measure the motion of a body in time; and the time itself do I not m"}, {"id": "card_n_d6aff0e9965d", "title": "Boethius, Consolation §boe_03_07: 'Then, what shall I say of the pleasures of the body?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "'Then, what shall I say of the pleasures of the body? The lust thereof is full of uneasiness; the sating, of repentance. What sicknesses, what intolerable pains, are they wont to bring on the bodies o"}, {"id": "card_n_953993475f68", "title": "Easton: Ahasuerus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are three kings designated by this name in Scripture. (1.) The father of Darius the Mede, mentioned in Dan. 9:1. This was probably the Cyaxares I. known by this name in profane history, the king"}, {"id": "card_n_aefd11433a6f", "title": "Easton: Mordecai", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. It has been alleged that he was carried into captivity with Jeconiah, and hence that he must have been at least one hundred and twenty-nine years old in the "}, {"id": "card_n_4b1df97690e6", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §201: FAITH.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "FAITH. A work of grace in the soul discovereth itself, either to him that hath it, or to standers by. To him that hath it thus: It gives him conviction of sin, especially of the defilement of his natu"}]}