Date: 1687
The true christian's " Soul [is] by Grace refin'd from drossie Earth, / From sordid Lusts and love of Sin / Made mindful of its own high Birth; / It will not be confin'd within / These narrow bounds of Matter and of Time"
preview | full record— Rawlet, John (bap. 1642, d. 1686)
Date: 1688
"None of this ages iron-hearted wretches, / That rather part with God, then Gold, or riches."
preview | full record— Paterson, Ninian (fl.1678-1696)
Date: 1689
And yet there is, there is one prize / Lock'd in an adamantine Breast; / Storm that then, Love, if thou be'st wise, / A Conquest above all the rest, / Her Heart, who binds all Hearts in chains, / Castanna's Heart untouch'd remains."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)
Date: 1689
If death could be bought off, "Almighty Gold should all controul; / I'd bear his Image in my Soul."
preview | full record— Goodall, Charles (1671-1689)
Date: 1691
"Afflictions like as fire doth / The Gold rarely refine, / Purge all our Souls, and we thereby / More gloriously may shine."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1691
"Grace doth our Souls to God unite, / Like glorious Golden Chains."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1691
"Thou like as a Refiner doth / The Gold and Silver try, / We had much dross until thou didst / Our Souls, Lord, purifie."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1692
With "sweat and pain" the philosopher may "Digg Mines of disputable Oar."
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
Date: 1692
"Or grant some Knowledge dwells below, / 'Tis but for some few years to stay / Till I'm set loose from this dark House of Clay, / And in an Instant I shall all things know."
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
Date: 1693
"Base vulgar drossie minds, with more alloy / Then is that captive wealth they might enjoy; / Which Thieves may steal, which Rust or Fire destroy;"
preview | full record— Wesley, Samuel, The Elder (bap. 1662, d. 1735)