Date: 1703
"Man in himself a little World contains / A Soul not subject or to Bonds or Chains."
preview | full record— Oldmixon, John (1672/3-1742)
Date: 1703
"And this is a great bondage to the mind of man, to live in ignorance of those things which are useful for us to know; to be mistaken about those matters which are of great moment and concernment to us to be rightly informed in: Ignorance is the confinement of our understandings, as Knowledge and...
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
Date: 1703
"Wickedness and vice is the bondage of the will, which is the proper seat of liberty: and therefore there is no such slave in the world, as a man that is subject to his lusts; that is under the tyranny of strong and unruly passions, of vicious inclinations and habits."
preview | full record— Tillotson, John (1630-1694)
Date: 1707
"How sad our State by Nature is! / Our Sin how deep it stains! / And Satan binds our captive Minds / Fast in his slavish Chains."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)