Date: 1667
"Grace engraves holiness unto / The Lord upon the heart, in character, / Indelible"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"A pure heart hath a golden Frontispice, / It loves fair vertue, and abhors foul vice."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"[T]he law of faith, / Working through love, upon their hearts shall write, / To guide them in all truth."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Spiritual laws by carnal power shall force / On every conscience; laws which none shall find / Left them inrolled, or what the Spirit within / Shall on the heart engrave."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1671
"[C]onfirm it within ... With my hand seal & heart--"
preview | full record— Howard, Edward (bap. 1624, d. 1712)
Date: 1672?
"Our Hearts are Paper, Beauty is the Pen, / Which writes our Loves, and blots 'em out agen"
preview | full record— Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701)
Date: 1673
" For tho the adulterations of art, can represent in the same Face beauty in one position, and deformity in another, yet nature is more sincere, and never meant a serene and clear forhead, should be the frontispiece to a cloudy tempestuous heart."
preview | full record— Allestree, Richard (1611/2-1681)
Date: August, 1674; 1675
"Your bounties too him have long since deeply engraven his crimes in my Soul"
preview | full record— Crowne, John (bap. 1641, d. 1712)
Date: 1676
"Lord shine and make my heart more soft, / And temper it, the seal to take."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1677
"His Soul appears like Paper white, / That yet had scarce bore word aright."
preview | full record— Speed, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. 1679?)