Date: 1752
"Go, Christian! with th' endearing Pledges seal'd / Fresh on thy Soul, resembling Pattern show/ How Jesus liv'd"
preview | full record— Browne, Moses (1706-1787)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Not all the volumes on thy shelf, / Are worth that single volume, Self."
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1752, 1791
"Life's records rise on ev'ry side, / And Conscience spreads those volumes wide; / Which faithful registers were brought / By pale-ey'd Fear and busy Thought. / Those faults which artful men conceal, / Stand here engrav'd with pen of steel, / By Conscience, that impartial scribe!"
preview | full record— Cotton, Nathaniel, the elder (1705-1788)
Date: 1753
"I teach true pleasures false ones to controul, / And warm the yielding heart, to stamp the mind"
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: June 1753
"My hand, the secretary of my mind, / Leaves thee these lines upon the poplar's rind."
preview | full record— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Date: w. April 25, 1737; 1753
"Gone, tho' she is, she left her soul behind, / In four dear transcripts of her copy'd mind."
preview | full record— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)
Date: 1754
"Look in my face; and, could my heart lie bare, / The Father would be seen engraven there"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: 1746, 1757
"Shall He, to God / Dear as his Eye and Heart, engraven there / Deep from Eternity; alone Belov'd, / Alone Begotten! say, shall He become / A Man of Grief--for Man?"
preview | full record— Thompson, William (bap. 1712, d.c. 1766)
Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find"
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1762
"Lord, with Thy love's acutest dart / Engrave Thy name upon my heart."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles