Date: 1698
"In this Glass [her journal] she every Day dress'd her Mind, to this faithful Monitor she repair'd for Advice and Direction, compar'd the past with the present, judg'd of what would be by what had been, observ'd nicely the several successive Degrees of Holiness She got, and of humane Infirmity sh...
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Date: 1698
"You have paid Your sad Respects to Her; be not now wanting to Your selves: but 'Gird up the Loins of Your Mind', and be Ye comforted!"
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Date: 1700
"Nay some affirm that in the deepest Cell / Imperial Reason's self does not disdain to dwell."
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1700
"Whate'er within this sacred Hall you find, / Whate'er will lodge in your capacious Mind "
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)
Date: 1700
"He knows those Strings to touch with artful Hand / Which rule Mankind, and all the World command: / What moves the Soul, and every secret Cell / Where Pity, Love, and all the Passions dwell."
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Date: 1704
"Fetch me, said she, a mighty Bowl, / Like Oberon's capacious Soul."
preview | full record— King, William (1663-1712)
Date: 1705
"[W]e all, by Just Experience, find / Content is only seated in the Mind"
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Date: 1705, 1712
In Catholicism "All humane Sense to holy Craft gave place, / And Reason was a Slave to doubtful Grace."
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Date: 1705, 1712
"If Reason must not judge of Faith's true light, / How came our Guides to know the wrong from right, / Or, how their rev'rend Heads distinguish plain, / Betwixt the Bible and the Alchoran."
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Date: 1705, 1712
"Reason's the heav'nly Ray that lights the Soul, / And the Faith dark that does its Power controul."
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