work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
7409,Mind's Eye,Reading,2013-06-11 22:03:02 UTC,"And O! what different creatures shall we soon be, from what we now are! Let us look forwards then, and frequently glance our thoughts towards death, though they cannot penetrate the darkness of that passage, or reach the state behind it. That lies veiled from the eyes of our mind; and the great God hath not thought fit to throw so much light upon it, as to satisfy the anxious and inquisitive desires the soul hath to know it.-—However, let us make the best use we can of that little light which Scripture and reason have let in upon this dark and important subject.
(I.ii, p. 21)",,20533,"","""That lies veiled from the eyes of our mind; and the great God hath not thought fit to throw so much light upon it, as to satisfy the anxious and inquisitive desires the soul hath to know it.""",Eye,2013-06-11 22:03:02 UTC,"Part I, Chapter II"
7409,"",Reading,2013-06-11 22:10:33 UTC,"It is ill judged (though very common) to be less ashamed of a want of temper than understanding. For it is no real dishonour or fault in a man to have but a small ability of mind, provided be hath not the vanity to set up for a genius (which would be as ridiculous, as for a man of small strength and stature of body to set up for a champion), because this is what he cannot help. But a man may in a good measure correct the fault of his natural temper, if he be well acquainted with it, and duly watchful over it.-— And therefore to betray a prevailing weakness of temper, or an ungoverned passion, diminishes a man's reputation much more than to discover a weakness of judgment or understanding.-—But what is most dishonourable of all is, for a man at once to discover a great genius and an ungoverned mind. Because that strength of reason and understanding he is master of gives him a great advantage for the government of his passions. And therefore his suffering himself notwithstanding to be governed by them, shows that he hath too much neglected or misapplied his natural talent, and willingly submitted to the tyranny of those lusts and passions, over which nature had furnished him with abilities to have secured an easy conquest.
(I.vi, pp. 52-3)
",,20536,"","""For it is no real dishonour or fault in a man to have but a small ability of mind, provided be hath not the vanity to set up for a genius (which would be as ridiculous, as for a man of small strength and stature of body to set up for a champion), because this is what he cannot help.""","",2013-06-11 22:10:33 UTC,"Part I, Chapter VI"
7409,"","Reading; Mason cites Dr. Lucas's Sermons, vol. i, p. 151.",2013-06-11 22:15:02 UTC,"'As in the humours of the body, so in the vices of the mind, there is one predominant which has an ascendant over us, and leads and governs us. It is in the body of sin, what the heart is in the body of our nature; it begins to live first and dies last: and whilst it lives, it communicates life and spirit to the whole body of sin; and when it dies, the body of sin expires with it. It is the sin to which our constitution leads, our circumstances betray, and custom enslaves us; the sin to which not our virtues only, but vices too, lower their topsails and submit; the sin which, when we would impose upon God and our consciences, we excuse and disguise with all imaginable artifice and sophistry; but, when we are sincere with both, we oppose first and conquer last. It is, in a word, the sin which reigns and rules in the unregenerate, and too often alarms and disturbs (ah! that I could say no more) the regenerate.'
(Part I, Chapter VII)",,20539,"","""As in the humours of the body, so in the vices of the mind, there is one predominant which has an ascendant over us, and leads and governs us.""","",2013-06-11 22:15:02 UTC,""
7409,"",Reading,2013-06-11 22:16:43 UTC,"It must be owned, it is an irksome and a disagreeable business for a man to turn his own accuser; to search after his own faults, and keep his eye upon that which gives him shame and pain to see. It is like tearing open an old wound. But it is better to do this than to let it mortify. The wounds of the conscience, like those of the body, cannot be well cured till they are searched to the bottom; and they cannot be searched without pain. A man who is engaged in the study of himself must be content to know the worst of himself.
(I.vii, p. 59)",,20540,"","""The wounds of the conscience, like those of the body, cannot be well cured till they are searched to the bottom; and they cannot be searched without pain.""","",2013-06-11 22:16:43 UTC,"Part I, Chapter VII"