{"query": "Easton: Goodness of God", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d969476d3fa7", "title": "Easton: Goodness of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A perfection of his character which he exercises towards his creatures according to their various circumstances and relations (Ps. 145:8, 9; 103:8; 1 John 4:8). Viewed generally, it is benevolence; as"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_31_19", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 31:19", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 31:19 — We have three things in these verses: - \nI. The believing acknowledgment which David makes of God's goodness to his people in general, Psa 31:19, Psa 31:20.\n1. God is good to all, bu"}, {"id": "card_c_m_555e21a67ba4", "title": "John cites Easton: Goodness of God", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "John cites Easton: Goodness of God."}, {"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_src_comm_psalms_59_8", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 59:8", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 59:8 — David here encourages himself, in reference to the threatening power of his enemies, with a pious resolution to wait upon God and a believing expectation that he should yet praise him"}, {"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_src_comm_psalms_62_8", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 62:8", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 62:8 — Here we have David's exhortation to others to trust in God and wait upon him, as he had done. Those that have found the comfort of the ways of God themselves will invite others into t"}, {"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_src_comm_psalms_144_9", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 144:9", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 144:9 — The method is the same in this latter part of the psalm as in the former; David first gives glory to God and then begs mercy from him.\nI. He praises God for the experiences he had ha"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_118_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 118:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 118:1 — It appears here, as often as elsewhere, that David had his heart full of the goodness of God. He loved to think of it, loved to speak of it, and was very solicitous that God might ha"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_36_5", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 36:5", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 36:5 — David, having looked round with grief upon the wickedness of the wicked, here looks up with comfort upon the goodness of God, a subject as delightful as the former was distasteful and"}, {"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_n_e65b94c3605a", "title": "Easton: Job", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Persecuted, an Arabian patriarch who resided in the land of Uz (q.v.). While living in the midst of great prosperity, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a series of sore trials that fell upon him. Amid al"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_85_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 85:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 85:1 — The church, in affliction and distress, is here, by direction from God, making her application to God. So ready is God to hear and answer the prayers of his people that by his Spirit "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_48_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 48:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 48:1 — The psalmist is designing to praise Jerusalem and to set forth the grandeur of that city; but he begins with the praises of God and his greatness (Psa 48:1), and ends with the praises"}, {"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_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_src_comm_psalms_19_7", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 19:7", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 19:7 — God's glory, (that is, his goodness to man) appears much in the works of creation, but much more in and by divine revelation. The holy scripture, as it is a rule both of our duty to G"}, {"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"}]}