Date: 1744, 1868
God may "fix in every sinless heart / His throne of everlasting love."
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Date: 1744
"I do verily think there is not any other medicine whatsoever so effectual to restore a crazy constitution, and cheer a dreary mind, or so likely to subvert that gloomy empire of the spleen (Sect. 103) which tyrannizeth over the better sort (as they are called) of these free nations, and maketh t...
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Date: 1747
Jesus can vindicate his "right Divine" and "Conquer this rebellious heart"
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Date: 1749
"With distant Voice neglected Virtue calls, / Less heard, and less the faint Remonstrance falls; / Tir'd with Contempt, she quits the slipp'ry Reign, / And Pride and Prudence take her Seat in vain."
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Date: 1749
God may one's "longing heart vouchsafe to make / [His] everlasting throne"
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Date: 1749
God may "Come quickly" and "in every heart / Set up [His] throne of love
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Date: 1749
"Long did our lusts and passions reign, / And ruled us with an iron rod"
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Date: Saturday, August 25, 1750
In "the seats of innocence and tranquility ... where I should see reason exerting her sovereignty over life, without any interruption from envy, avarice, or ambition, and every day passing in such a manner as the severest wisdom should approve."
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Date: Tuesday, April 24, 1750
"Those sudden bursts of rage generally break out upon small occasions; for life, unhappy as it is, cannot supply great evils as frequently as the man of fire thinks it fit to be enraged; therefore the first reflection upon his violence must shew him that he is mean enough to be driven from his po...
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Date: Tuesday, May 15, 1750
"But, if any passion has so much usurped our understanding, as not to suffer us to enjoy advantages with the moderation prescribed by reason, it is not too late to apply this remedy, when we find ourselves sinking under sorrow, and inclined to pine for that which is irrecoverably vanished."
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