Date: 1661
"On this the King pitched his Mind's clear eye, / When he cry'd out, all things are vanity."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"Such were Love's Ardors, he could scarce forbear / His fettering flesh, his free Soul's chaines, to tear."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1667
"Conscience is Christs Vicar in mans heart, / It keeps Court there, and acts the Judges part"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"Pray'r is a Coach which by the Spirit driven, / Hurries our Souls into the Courts of Heaven."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1670
Weakness of mind may be water-like or wax-like
preview | full record— Greville, Fulke, first Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (1554-1628)
Date: August, 1674; 1675
"But thou who art not ignorant of my Rivals affairs, tell me, what passes in his Court, in his Soul!"
preview | full record— Crowne, John (bap. 1641, d. 1712)
Date: 1675
"Those things are mean, are forc'd to court the Eyes, The Porters of the Soul, to give 'em entrance."
preview | full record— Fane, Sir Francis (d. 1691)
Date: 1676, 1703
"This is also abundantly proved by the Experience of all such, as being secretly touched with the Call of God's Grace unto them, do apply themselves to false Teachers, where the Remedy proves worse than the Disease; because, instead of knowing God, or the things relating to their Salvation aright...
preview | full record— Barclay, Robert (1648-1690)
Date: 1684
"This Youth to dinner came, Intruding fashion, / With certain Friend; Danc'd with that Golden Lass; / Found Courting pause sometimes, no Heart of brass, / Softned, orecame: yet once before beheld; / Woo'd then by Looks, now th' Hand and Tongue reveal'd / ...
preview | full record— Harington, John (1627-1700)
Date: 1685
"The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made: / Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, / As they draw near to their eternal home"
preview | full record— Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)