Date: 1614
"That there is a God; ... This is a common notion, and impression, sealed up in the minde of every man."
preview | full record— Purchas, Samuel (bap. 1577, d. 1626)
Date: 1682
"The Body is but the Clog and Prisoner of the Mind; tossed up and down, and persecuted with Punishments, Violences, and Diseases; but the Mind it self is Sacred, and Eternal, and exempt from the Danger of all Actual Impression."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)