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
"Our Understandings have a Natural, which is a Fallible-light; and therefore often leads us wrong."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"It is true, that the word Baptism is often taken in a Figurative and Allegorical Sense, to mean the INWARD BAPTISM, the Washing, or Cleansing of the Heart: But so is the word Washing also, as often, as Jer. iv. 14. &c. And there is scarce a Word in the World but is capable of many Figurative an...
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Date: 1700
"We our selves are Figures of God, being Images of him: And what is an Image but the Figure or Sign of a Thing?"
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Date: 1700
"Now if the Soul, which is but an Image of God, at an Infinite distance, can communicate it self to several Members, without breach of its Unity; why should it be Impossible for the Eternal and Infinite Mind to communicate it self to several Persons, without breach of its Unity; I will be bold to...
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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 "
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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: 1700
"God has placed a Natural light, as a Candle in our Hearts; and His Supernatural light does Influence and Direct it."
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