{"query": "Easton: Decrees of God", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_16ea7b0e8a39", "title": "Easton: Decrees of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“The decrees of God are his eternal, unchangeable, holy, wise, and sovereign purpose, comprehending at once all things that ever were or will be in their causes, conditions, successions, and relations"}, {"id": "card_c_m_060f9e7ffc0c", "title": "Easton: Corban shares a section with Easton: Decrees of God", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Corban shares a section with Easton: Decrees of God."}, {"id": "card_c_m_6738a2dff7a9", "title": "Easton: Decrees of God cites Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Decrees of God cites Matthew."}, {"id": "card_n_a229e6923dc6", "title": "Easton: Brass", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Which is an alloy of copper and zinc, was not known till the thirteenth century. What is designated by this word in Scripture is properly copper (Deut. 8:9). It was used for fetters (Judg. 16:21; 2 Ki"}, {"id": "card_n_ac10a439bca1", "title": "Easton: Son of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The plural, “sons of God,” is used (Gen. 6:2, 4) to denote the pious descendants of Seth. In Job 1:6; 38:7 this name is applied to the angels. Hosea uses the phrase (1:10) to designate the gracious re"}, {"id": "card_c_b0420d64c068", "title": "Easton: Decrees of God ↔ Easton: Foreknowledge of God", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite act 2:23, act 15:18 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_n_71cbf4222dc8", "title": "Easton: Reconcilation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A change from enmity to friendship. It is mutual, i.e., it is a change wrought in both parties who have been at enmity. (1.) In Col. 1:21, 22, the word there used refers to a change wrought in the per"}, {"id": "card_n_b48602ef6dba", "title": "Easton: Creation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“In the beginning” God created, i.e., called into being, all things out of nothing. This creative act on the part of God was absolutely free, and for infinitely wise reasons. The cause of all things e"}, {"id": "card_c_e604d87db851", "title": "Easton: Decrees of God ↔ Easton: Humiliation of Christ", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both cite act 2:23 — a shared-scripture cross-reference computed in 1.0 and re-verified live in both cards."}, {"id": "card_n_e26790741c38", "title": "Easton: Fall of man", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An expression probably borrowed from the Apocryphal Book of Wisdom, to express the fact of the revolt of our first parents from God, and the consequent sin and misery in which they and all their poste"}, {"id": "card_n_0c4706cfdaba", "title": "Westminster Shorter Q8", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How doth God execute his decrees?\n\nGod executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence."}, {"id": "card_n_4a82d606103e", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Scripture speaks (1) of the election of individuals to office or to honour and privilege, e.g., Abraham, Jacob, Saul, David, Solomon, were all chosen by God for the positions they held; so also we"}, {"id": "card_n_c6267fa0737c", "title": "Easton: Inspiration", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That extraordinary or supernatural divine influence vouchsafed to those who wrote the Holy Scriptures, rendering their writings infallible. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God” (R.V., “Every"}, {"id": "card_n_e91e5b22158f", "title": "Easton: Prayer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Prayer may be oral or mental, occasional or constant, ejaculatory or forma"}, {"id": "card_n_d070a34c67cf", "title": "Easton: Word of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. 4:12, etc.). The Bible so called because the writers of its several books were God’s organs in communicating his will to men. It is his “word,” because he speaks to us in its sacred pages. Whate"}, {"id": "card_n_e1df4c77bac5", "title": "Easton: Word, The", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. Logos), one of the titles of our Lord, found only in the writings of John (John 1:1-14; 1 John 1:1; Rev. 19:13). As such, Christ is the revealer of God. His office is to make God known. “No man h"}, {"id": "card_n_31afdc125ee8", "title": "Westminster Shorter Q7", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What are the decrees of God?\n\nThe decrees of God are his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass."}, {"id": "card_n_939087c78d96", "title": "Easton: Bless", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) God blesses his people when he bestows on them some gift temporal or spiritual (Gen. 1:22; 24:35; Job 42:12; Ps. 45:2; 104:24, 35). (2.) We bless God when we thank him for his mercies (Ps. 103:1,"}, {"id": "card_c_5a0e6d5b99c7", "title": "Easton: Decrees of God references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_1bf8708468bc", "title": "Easton: God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning to be strong; (2) of ’Eloah_, plural _’Elohim. The singular form"}]}