Date: 1636
"So some have looked over their hearts by signs at one time, and have to their thinking found nothing but hypocrisy, unbelief, hardness, self-seeking; but not long after, examining their hearts again by the same signs, they have espied the image of God drawn fairly upon the table of their hearts."
preview | full record— Goodwin, Thomas (1600-1680)
Date: 1639
"[T]he onely rule of our conscience, is the Law of God written in our hearts."
preview | full record— Ames, William (1576-1633)
Date: 1639
"There are some principles so cleare, and written in the hearts of all men, that they cannot erre to obey and practise them."
preview | full record— Ames, William (1576-1633)
Date: 1639
"[T]he Law of Nature" of "the Law of God ... is naturally written in the hearts of all men."
preview | full record— Ames, William (1576-1633)
Date: 1640
"Hexamater's no sterling, and I feare / What the brain coines goes scarce for currency there"
preview | full record— Randolph, Thomas (bap. 1605, d. 1635)
Date: 1640
"The minds of men are after such strange waies besieged, that for to admit the true beams of things, a sincere and polisht Area is wanting"
preview | full record— Watts, Gilbert (d. 1657)
Date: MS. 1640, 1650
"[T]here is no doubt, if the true doctrine concerning the law of nature, and the properties of a body politic, and the nature of law in general, were perspicuously set down, and taught in the Universities, but that young men, who come thither void of prejudice, and whose minds are yet as white pa...
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: MS. 1640, 1650
"For certainly men are not otherwise so unequal in capacity as the evidence is unequal of what is taught by the mathematicians, and what is commonly discoursed of in other books: and therefore if the minds of men were all of white paper, they would almost equally be disposed to acknowledge whatso...
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: 1641
"As Lots wife was turned into a Pillar of Salt, that her inconstancie might be fixt, and yet be melting still: So, thou, my Soule, if I had my wish, shouldst be turned into a Pillar of Thoughts; that thy volubility might be restrain'd, and yet be thinking still."
preview | full record— Baker, Richard, Sir (c. 1568-1645)
Date: 1642
"The heart of man is the place the Devils dwell in: I feel sometimes a Hell within my self; Lucifer keeps his Court in my breast, Legion is revived in me."
preview | full record— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)