Date: 1678
"I left off to watch, and be sober; I laid the reins upon the neck of my lusts; I sinned against the light of the Word, and the goodness of God."
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Date: 1678
"This conceit would loosen the reines of our lust, and tollerate us to live as we list."
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Date: 1719
"It would take up a larger Volume than this whole Work is intended to be, to set down all the Contrivances I hatch'd, or rather brooded upon in my Thought."
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Date: 1722
"His Words I must confess fir'd my Blood; all my Spirits flew about my Heart, and put me into Disorder enough."
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Date: 1724
"Those Reflections began to prey upon my Comforts, and lessen the Sweets of my other Enjoyments: They might be said to have gnaw'd a Hole in my Heart before; but now they made a Hole quite thro' it; now they eat into all my pleasant things; made bitter every Sweet, and mix'd my Sighs with every S...
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