Date: 1678, 2nd edition in 1743
"That Vital Sympathy, by which our Soul is united and tied fast, as it were with a Knot, to the Body, is a thing that we have no direct Consciousness of, but only in its Effects."
preview | full record— Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Date: 1678
"The Interpreter answered; This Parlor is the heart of a Man that was never sanctified by the sweet Grace of the Gospel: The dust, is his Original Sin, and inward Corruptions that have defiled the whole Man; He that began to sweep at first, is the Law; but She that brought water, and did sprinkle...
preview | full record— Bunyan, John (bap. 1628, d. 1688)
Date: 1679
The soul "'tis blurr'd, and soil'd by filthy dust / O 'tis defac'd and spoil'd by means of Lust"
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1679
"But he who stamp'd [the soul] there at first, can make / It once again a new Impression take."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1679
"Lose not the Soul, (the wax) for nought can bear / This Image then, nor can that loss repair."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1679
"'Tis sure, thy heart hath too too many leaks, / Which sacred things let out, and then let in / Satans suggestions, the world, and sin"
preview | full record— Slater, Samuel (c.1629-1704)
Date: 1680
"So week and feeble I am grown, / Wasted to nothing, ev'ry bone / Disjoynted, from its place doth start, / Like Wax dissolv'd so is my Heart."
preview | full record— Chamberlayne, Sir James (c.1640-1699)
Date: 1681
"Come, be genuine with me--here's a Protector's half Crown for thee--two shillings five pence sterling--and let it be a Key to unlock thy heart"
preview | full record— D'Urfey, Thomas (1653?-1723)
Date: 1681
"That, for all furniture, you'l find / Only your Picture in my Mind."
preview | full record— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Date: 1682
"Great Prince, th' Almighty has to you been kind, / Stamp'd Graces on your Body and your mind."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)