{"query": "Pilgrim's Progress §8: I find not that I am denied the use O", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_48096a61cb84", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §8: I find not that I am denied the use Of this my method, so I no abuse Put on the words, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "1. I find not that I am denied the use Of this my method, so I no abuse Put on the words, things, readers; or be rude In handling figure or similitude, In application; but, all that I may, Seek the ad"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_deuteronomy_32_39", "title": "Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:39", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Deuteronomy 32:39 — This conclusion of the song speaks three things:\nI. Glory to God, Deu 32:39. \"See now upon the whole matter, that I, even I, am he. Learn this from the destruction of idolaters,"}, {"id": "card_n_f9a6de051980", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §6: Be not too forward, therefore, to conclude That I want solidness--that I am rude; All t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Be not too forward, therefore, to conclude That I want solidness--that I am rude; All things solid in show not solid be; All things in parables despise not we; Lest things most hurtful lightly we rece"}, {"id": "card_n_ac431df2f39c", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §212: EVAN.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "EVAN. Right glad am I, said Evangelist, not that you have met with trials, but that you have been victors; and for that you have, notwithstanding many weaknesses, continued in the way to this very day"}, {"id": "card_n_5ab5b38b6c18", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §5: 'Well, yet I am not fully satisfied, That this your book will stand, when soundly tried...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "'Well, yet I am not fully satisfied, That this your book will stand, when soundly tried.' Why, what's the matter? 'It is dark.' What though? 'But it is feigned.' What of that? I trow? Some men, by fei"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_119_94", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:94", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 119:94 — Here, 1. David claims relation to God: \"I am thine, devoted to thee and owned by thee, thine in covenant.\" He does not say, Thou art mine (as Dr. Manton observes), though that follo"}, {"id": "card_n_5ad964b9a051", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §11: In this plight, therefore, he went home and refrained himself as long as he could, that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In this plight, therefore, he went home and refrained himself as long as he could, that his wife and children should not perceive his distress; but he could not be silent long, because that his troubl"}, {"id": "card_n_1e1696e7d81c", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §351: But I replied, Lord, I am a great, a very great sinner.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "But I replied, Lord, I am a great, a very great sinner. And he answered, \"My grace is sufficient for thee.\" Then I said, But, Lord, what is believing? And then I saw from that saying, \"He that cometh "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_acts_22_3", "title": "Matthew Henry on Acts 22:3", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Acts 22:3 — Paul here gives such an account of himself as might serve not only to satisfy the chief captain that he was not that Egyptian he took him to be, but the Jews also that he was not that e"}, {"id": "card_n_0c27a480e54a", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §123: PRUD.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "PRUD. Do you not find sometimes, as if those things were vanquished, which at other times are your perplexity? Christian's golden hours CHR. 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I beshrew him for his counsel! there is not a more dangerous and troublesome way in the world than is that unto which he hath directed thee; and that thou shalt find, if thou wilt be ruled by h"}, {"id": "card_n_b016a668dd2e", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §281: CHR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "CHR. Who could have thought that this path should have led us out of the way? HOPE. I was afraid on it at the very first, and therefore gave you that gentle caution. I would have spoken plainer, but t"}, {"id": "card_n_fd72797ba3e9", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §113: CHR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "CHR. I had been here sooner, but that, \"wretched man that I am!\" I slept in the arbour that stands on the hillside; nay, I had, notwithstanding that, been here much sooner, but that, in my sleep, I lo"}, {"id": "card_n_4da24bdda3ec", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §1: When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I had undertook To make another; which, when almost done, B"}, {"id": "card_n_b64f2d0d31af", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §168: So I saw that Christian went on his way; yet, at the sight of the Old Man that sat in t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "So I saw that Christian went on his way; yet, at the sight of the Old Man that sat in the mouth of the cave, he could not tell what to think, especially because he spake to him, though he could not go"}, {"id": "card_n_a31688f13822", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_062: Behold, in Thee, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praise...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, in Thee, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praises, for my own sake, but for the good of my neighbour. And whether it be so with me, I know not. For herein I know less of m"}]}