Date: 1662
"Flowers, rivers, woods, the pleasant air and wind, / With Sacred thoughts, do feed my serious mind."
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Date: 1662
The "active soul doth not consume with rust"
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Date: 1754, 1793
"All-perfect Wisdom, on each living soul, / Engrav'd this mandate, 'to preserve their frame, And hold entire the gen'ral orb of being.'"
preview | full record— Blacklock, Thomas (1721-1791)
Date: 1739, 1766
Sins may "erect their throne" in one's heart
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Date: 1770
"Excursive thought" may "Stand still a moment, and by reason taught / Judge rightly, with strict eye thyself survey"
preview | full record— Downman, Hugh (1740-1809)
Date: 1773
"What tho' no Objects strike upon the Sight,-- / Thy Sacred Presence is an inward Light."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"What tho' no Sounds should penetrate the Ear,-- / To list'ning Thought the Voice of Truth is clear."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"Sincere Devotion needs no outward shrine: / The Centre of an humble Soul is Thine."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"There may I worship, and there may'st Thou place / Thy Seat of Mercy and Thy Throne of Grace; / Yea, fix, if Christ my Advocate appear, / The dread Tribunal of Thy Justice there!"
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)
Date: 1773
"His Wounds are healing, and His Griefs give Ease; / He, like a true Physician of the Soul, / Applies the Med'cine that may make it whole."
preview | full record— Byrom, John (1692-1763)