work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3411,Race,"Searching ""heart"" and ""skin"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2006-12-18 00:00:00 UTC,"Sin, only sin, in me I find;
I cannot subject be
To Thy command; my carnal mind
Is enmity to Thee.
But Thou canst wash the leper clean,
The stone to flesh convert,
Canst make the Ethiop change his skin,
And purify my heart .
Then only, when by grace renew'd,
My will with Thine shall suit:
O make the tree of nature good,
And good shall be its fruit.",,8703,"","""But Thou canst wash the leper clean, / The stone to flesh convert, / Canst make the Ethiop change his skin, / And purify my heart .""","",2009-09-14 19:33:43 UTC,""
3330,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""skin"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2006-12-18 00:00:00 UTC,"Speak; and an holy thing and clean
Shall strangely be brought out of me;
My Ethiop soul shall change her skin;
Redeem'd from all iniquity,
I, even I, shall then proclaim
The wonders wrought by Jesu's name.",2012-04-29,8704,INTEREST. REVISIT. Race of soul.,"""My Ethiop soul shall change her skin; / Redeem'd from all iniquity.""","",2012-04-29 15:09:09 UTC,""
4640,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry); text from ECCO-TCP,2005-04-07 00:00:00 UTC,"V.
My Saviour, Thou thy Love to me
In Want, in Pain, in Shame, hast show'd;
For me on the accursed Tree
Thou pouredst forth thy guiltless Blood:
Thy Wounds upon my Heart impress,
Nor ought shall the lov'd Stamp efface.
(p. 157)",2014-02-09,12219,VARIANT: aught/ought. Corr. in HDIS edition? ,"""Thy wounds upon my heart impress, / Nor [a]ught shall the loved stamp efface""",Impression,2014-02-09 19:15:13 UTC,""
5288,"",Searching in HDIS (Poetry),2005-04-19 00:00:00 UTC,"Father, and Son, and Spirit join'd
In the creating plan,
Each is the Maker of mankind,
And doth His work sustain:
The Spirit breathed His life into
Our animated clay,
And He begets our souls anew,
And seals us to that day.
",,14206,"","""The Spirit breathed His life into / Our animated clay, / And He begets our souls anew, / And seals us to that day""","",2009-09-14 19:40:15 UTC,Hymns and Prayers to the Trinity
7941,"",Reading at the British Library,2014-06-20 18:06:58 UTC,"I speculatively know, What Light is; and I see the Light of Faith, just as that Man sees the Light of the Sun, on whose closed Eyes the Sun shines. But I want the Holy Ghost to open my Eyes, that I may see all Things clearly.
Therefore the Eyes of my Understanding are not yet open'd, but the Old Veil is still upon my Heart.
(p. 20)",,24065,"","""Therefore the Eyes of my Understanding are not yet open'd, but the Old Veil is still upon my Heart.""","",2014-06-20 18:06:58 UTC,""
7941,"",Reading in British Library,2014-06-20 18:12:12 UTC,"As to the Outward Manner You speak of, wherein most of them were affected who were cut to the Heart by the Sword of Spirit, no wonder that this was at first surprising to You, since they are indeed so very rare, that have been thus prick'd and wounded. yet some of the Instances You give, seem to be exemplified, in the Outward Manner wherein Paul and the Jailor were first affected: As also Peter's Hearers, Acts ii. The last Instance you gave, of some struggling as in the Agonies of Death, and in such a manner that four or five strong Men can hardly restrain a weak Woman from hurting herself or others: This is to me somewhat more inexplicable: If it do not resemble the Child spoke of, Mark ix. 26, and Luke ix. 42. Of whom it is said, that while he was yet a coming, the Devil threw him down and tare him. Or what influence sudden and sharp Awakenings may have upon the Body I pretend not to explain. But I make no question Satan, so far as he gets Power, may exert himself on such Occasions, partly to hinder the good Work in the Persons who are thus touched with sharp Arrows of Conviction, and partly to disparage the Work of God, as if it tended to lead People to Distraction.""
(p. 63)",,24066,"in a letter from R. E.
See Heb 4:12","""As to the Outward Manner You speak of, wherein most of them were affected who were cut to the Heart by the Sword of Spirit, no wonder that this was at first surprising to You, since they are indeed so very rare, that have been thus prick'd and wounded.""","",2014-06-20 18:12:45 UTC,""