Date: 1767

"And sure forgiveness sealest / On all our waiting hearts."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1767

"The promise and the prayer is seal'd, / Seal'd on her heart in gospel-peace."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1767

"The witness breathe into my heart, / And seal my sins forgiven."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1767

"But graciously forgive me, / And seal it on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1767

"And fill up all Thy human shrine, / And seal our souls for ever Thine"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1767, 1784

"Shall we, because we strive in vain to tell / How Matter acts on incorporeal Mind, / Or how, when sleep has lock'd up ev'ry sense, / Or fevers rage, Imagination paints / Unreal scenes, reject what sober sense, / And calmest thought attest?"

— Jago, Richard (1715-1781)

Date: 1769

"For every Creature of this World, animate or inanimate, is in its Degree, a Microcosm of all the Powers, that are in the great World, of which it is a Part."

— Law, William (1686-1761)

Date: 1770

"Excursive thought" may "Stand still a moment, and by reason taught / Judge rightly, with strict eye thyself survey"

— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)

Date: w. prior to April 1770; 1785, 1837, 1875

"Though Fancy under Reason's lash may fall, / Yet Fancy in Religion's all in all"

— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

Date: 1770-1

"This rather disconcerted his scheme, and set him a scratching, that being a kind of involuntary motion with him, whenever a train of ideas kept whirling in his brain with such velocity that he could not fix on any single one to stick by, and let the rest whirl out the way they came in."

— Bridges, Thomas (b. 1710?, d. in or after 1775)