{"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_src_comm_proverbs_25_27", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:27", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 25:27 — I. Two things we must be graciously dead to: - 1. To the pleasures of sense, for it is not good to eat much honey; though it pleases the taste, and, if eaten with moderation, is ve"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_12_28", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:28", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 12:28 — The way of religion is here recommended to us, 1. As a straight, plain, easy way; it is the way of righteousness. God's commands (the rule we are to walk by) are all holy, just, an"}, {"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. "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_15_21", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:21", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 15:21 — Note, 1. It is the character of a wicked man that he takes pleasure in sin; he has an appetite to the bait, and swallows it greedily, and has no dread of the hook, nor feels from i"}, {"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_src_comm_jeremiah_36_20", "title": "Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 36:20", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Jeremiah 36:20 — We have traced the roll to the people, and to the princes, and here we are to follow it to the king; and we find,\nI. That, upon notice given him concerning it, he sent for it, and "}, {"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_src_comm_proverbs_21_15", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:15", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 21:15 — Note, 1. It is a pleasure and satisfaction to good men both to see justice administered by the government they live under, right taking place and iniquity suppressed, and also to p"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_n_f1280ad0bfcb", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §193: FAITH.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "FAITH. Say you so! then am I in this man greatly deceived. CHR. Deceived! you may be sure of it; remember the proverb, \"They say and do not.\" But the kingdom of God is not in word, but in Power. He ta"}, {"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_src_comm_deuteronomy_29_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Deuteronomy 29:1 — Now that Moses had largely repeated the commands which the people were to observe as their part of the covenant, and the promises and threatenings which God would make good (acco"}, {"id": "card_k_floor_of_discovery", "title": "The Floor of Discovery — one floor, and by its design the fear of God", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Seeds of knowledge — identified, categorized, and mapped — form a floor of reality. 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Among be"}, {"id": "card_n_8b7c3f7445f0", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §247: Then Christian stepped a little aside to his fellow, Hopeful, saying, It runs in my min...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then Christian stepped a little aside to his fellow, Hopeful, saying, It runs in my mind that this is one By-ends of Fair-speech; and if it be he, we have as very a knave in our company as dwelleth in"}, {"id": "card_n_3b95d43dbbd3", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §75: CHR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "CHR. Then said Christian, What means this? INTER. The Interpreter answered, This parlour is the heart of a man that was never sanctified by the sweet grace of the gospel; the dust is his original sin "}, {"id": "card_n_5e2de3800715", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §275: CHR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "CHR. It is a thing to be wondered at, and it argueth that their hearts are grown desperate in the case; and I cannot tell who to compare them to so fitly, as to them that pick pockets in the presence "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_13_12", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:12", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 13:12 — Note, 1. Nothing is more grievous than the disappointment of a raised expectation, though not in the thing itself by a denial, yet in the time of it by a delay: Hope deferred makes"}]}