Date: 1685
One's thoughts and joys may be "all pack'd up and gone"
preview | full record— Mason, John (1646?-1694)
Date: 1707
"How sad our State by Nature is! / Our Sin how deep it stains! / And Satan binds our captive Minds / Fast in his slavish Chains."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707
"Why should we vex and grieve his love, / Who seals our souls to heavenly life?"
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1733-5
"[Love's] Pleasures have so many Pains, / And leave such Stings behind, / That I'm resolv'd to quit the Chains, / And free my captive Mind."
preview | full record— Bowden, Samuel (fl. 1733-1761)
Date: 1740
"Be I, O Thou my better part, / A seal impress'd upon Thy heart:"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles