Date: 1661
"These are but objects at a distance, these / Are but refreshments, and to give you ease, / To make thy Way the sweeter, till thou art / Hid in the Closet of Sophia's Heart."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"On this attracting Face our Pilgrim throws / His eyes, his Soul thorow those windows goes"
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1675
"They were i'th' dark, their heart was a dark room, / Till saving grace from God did thither come."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1675
"True faith within, doth but apply, / Unto the soul, the soveraign remedy; / 'Tis as a door, or like a window bright, / Which to dark souls lets in the precious light"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1675
"Who th' Image yet unborn did entertain, / And hous'd the Theater within his Brain."
preview | full record— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)
Date: 1675
"The Intellectual Theater appear'd, / As in the Fancy by a Builder rear'd."
preview | full record— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)
Date: 1675
"Many such Theaters lodge in that Breast, / Where this at largest, a small space possest."
preview | full record— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)
Date: 1679
"Mourn therefore that this Cabinet of thine / Framed by Gods own hand for things divine, / And to be fill'd with Christ and Grace should be / Thus stufft with dross, and dung, and vanitie."
preview | full record— Slater, Samuel (c.1629-1704)
Date: 1679
"How can'st thou, cruel Soul, thus let me stand, / Barr'd out of Doors, whilst others do command / The choicest Room within thy yielding Breast, / Lodgings too good for such destructive Guests."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1680
"Here your dear Memory shall be inshrin'd, / And deep impression bear upon our mind."
preview | full record— Livingstone, Michael (fl. 1680)