work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5392,"","Searching ""judge within"" in HDIS (Poetry); confirmed in ECCO.",2004-08-26 00:00:00 UTC,"But now with all these proud desires
For dauntless truth and and honest fame;
With that strong master of our frame,
The inexorable judge within,
What can be done? Alas, ye fires
Of love; alas, ye rosy smiles,
Ye nectar'd cups from happier soils,
--Ye have no bribe his grace to win.
(p. 312 in 1772 ed.)",2011-06-13,14479,"","""With that strong master of our frame, / The inexorable judge within / What can be done?""",Court,2014-03-07 20:18:23 UTC,""
7870,"",Reading,2014-04-24 01:00:19 UTC,"[...] The apostle desires that the Ephesians might not faint at the tribulation which he endured; signifying that God did not set the sufferings of his servants before them with a view to discourage but to embolden them, and strengthen their faith; therefore they ought rather to glory in than be dismayed at them, ver. 13. The apostle begins praying in the middle of this epistle, and addresses the Father of Christ, of whom all the elect angels, and all the elect of the human race, called the family of heaven and earth, are named, ver. 15. The blessing that the apostle craves of God is, that the Ephesians might be strengthened by his Spirit's might in the inner man. By the inner man he means the whole work of grace which is in every renewed soul, and is called the new, or the inner man, as corruption and pollution are called the old man. It is as though the apostle had said, the grace and Spirit of God, which hath humbled and inclined your wills to chuse Christ, in subordination to the will of God, has also appointed Christ to be your everlasting portion. And, as the apostle took it for granted that humbling grace had subdued their wills, and purifying grace had renewed them in the spirit of their minds, so likewise he judged that the love of God had influenced their affections, and kindled an intense desire after the enjoyment of Christ Jesus. The apostle wishes and prays that the sovereign and all-conquering grace of God might reign and rule in their hearts and consciences.
(pp. 4-5)",,23788,"","""The apostle wishes and prays that the sovereign and all-conquering grace of God might reign and rule in their hearts and consciences.""","",2014-04-24 01:00:19 UTC,""
7870,"","Reading E.P. Thompson, Witness Against the Beast (New York: The New Press, 1993), 6.",2014-04-24 01:02:41 UTC,"Therefore he desires the ever-blessed Redeemer to reign and rule unmolested, and without a rival, in their affections, as if they were seated with him on his throne. The apostle well knew that erroneous men would be busy in besieging their understandings, and that carnal objects would be labouring to engross their affections; vanity to entertain their minds, pleasures to attract their desires, and legality to entangle and govern their consciences. Therefore he wishes their inner man to be strengthened with spiritual might; hinting thereby that all our resolutions, efforts, and watchfulness, would not be sufficient bulwarks against the attempts and attacks of Satan, unless they were strengthened by the spiritual might of God Almighty.
(p. 5)",,23789,"","""The apostle well knew that erroneous men would be busy in besieging their understandings, and that carnal objects would be labouring to engross their affections; vanity to entertain their minds, pleasures to attract their desires, and legality to entangle and govern their consciences.""",Empire,2014-04-24 01:02:41 UTC,""
7870,"",Reading,2014-04-24 01:06:45 UTC,"When this is the case the hedge (to our feelings) is broken down, and we lie exposed to every temptation; as says the Psalmist--Why hast thou broken down her hedges, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her? Psal. lxxx. 12. When thus entangled we try to resist, but are still rebuffed or beaten back; this causes rebellion and murmuring to take possession of our hearts; and it is thus that the foolishness of man perverteth his way, and his heart fretteth against the Lord. Prov. xix. 3.
(p. 6)",,23792,"",""" When thus entangled we try to resist, but are still rebuffed or beaten back; this causes rebellion and murmuring to take possession of our hearts.""","",2014-04-24 01:06:45 UTC,""
7870,"",Reading,2014-04-24 01:07:59 UTC,"The apostle desires that Christ, as their king, might have his laws loved, obeyed, and meditated on in their minds; and, as king of righteousness, that his blessed sceptre might be swayed in their affections and consciences; and as he was their atoning Saviour, that peace and pardon might be sensibly enjoyed in their souls; and that the altogether lovely Saviour might be enthroned, exalted, and admired, in the throne of their hearts--That Christ, said he, may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye may be rooted and grounded in love. ver. 17.
(p. 8)",,23793,"","""[A]nd that the altogether lovely Saviour might be enthroned, exalted, and admired, in the throne of their hearts""","",2014-04-24 01:07:59 UTC,""