{"query": "Easton: Grace, means of", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_c_02f205c56394", "title": "Easton: Habitation ↔ Easton: Grace, means of", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_e_h — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_c_af06fae36ca8", "title": "Easton: Grace, means of ↔ Easton: Ford", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_e_h — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_src_book_58536", "title": "The Glory of Grace Effected by Weak Means Being the Substance of a Sermon, Preached on the Death of Samuel Church, Aged Twelve Years. On Sunday Evening, April 14, 1822, by J. Churc", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Glory of Grace Effected by Weak Means Being the Substance of a Sermon, Preached on the Death of Samuel Church, Aged Twelve Years. On Sunday Evening, April 14, 1822, by J. Church, at the Surrey Tab"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_titus_2_11", "title": "Matthew Henry on Titus 2:11", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Titus 2:11 — Here we have the grounds or considerations upon which all the foregoing directions are urged, taken from the nature and design of the gospel, and the end of Christ's death.\nI. From the"}, {"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_src_comm_2_corinthians_8_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 8:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 2 Corinthians 8:1 — Observe here,\nI. The apostle takes occasion from the good example of the churches of Macedonia, that is, of Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, and others in the region of Macedonia,"}, {"id": "card_n_e2dd406a0837", "title": "Easton: Generation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gen. 2:4, “These are the generations,” means the “history.” 5:1, “The book of the generations,” means a family register, or history of Adam. 37:2, “The generations of Jacob” = the history of Jacob and"}, {"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_src_book_59121", "title": "E. K. Means Is This a Title? It Is Not. 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In Isa. 46:1 (R.V., “the things that ye carried about”) the "}, {"id": "card_n_0667b6bec0dd", "title": "Easton: Jeroboam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Increase of the people. (1.) The son of Nebat (1 Kings 11:26-39), “an Ephrathite,” the first king of the ten tribes, over whom he reigned twenty-two years (B.C. 976-945). He was the son of a widow of "}, {"id": "card_n_ca42a63e4ef6", "title": "Easton: Damnation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Rom. 13:2, means “condemnation,” which comes on those who withstand God’s ordinance of magistracy. This sentence of condemnation comes not from the magistrate, but from God, whose authority is thus"}, {"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. 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