Date: 1658
"O may the lustre of those rayes divine / Be alwaies sparkling in this heart of mine!"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1660
"Things that the least of drossy mixture hold, / Last longest; my Hearts flames Ætherial be, / More pure than seven times refined Gold / Than Cedar's flames: rays of a Deitie / They are."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1660, 1676
"Conscience is the brightness and splendor of the eternal light, a spotless mirror of the Divine Majesty, and the Image of the goodness of God."
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)