Date: 1661
"For when the outward body doth consume, / In Hell such take their Hell-prepared room, / Their souls there having some such shape, or hue / Of beasts, whose actions they inclined to"
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"These are but objects at a distance, these / Are but refreshments, and to give you ease, / To make thy Way the sweeter, till thou art / Hid in the Closet of Sophia's Heart."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"On this attracting Face our Pilgrim throws / His eyes, his Soul thorow those windows goes"
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"He [Satan] sew'd his Tares of Errors, and did blind / With clouds of darknesse, Man's true eye, the Mind."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"This doth the understanding purge; the eye / O'th' Soul, the Mind from Motes do purifie."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"On this the King pitched his Mind's clear eye, / When he cry'd out, all things are vanity."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1661
"Such were Love's Ardors, he could scarce forbear / His fettering flesh, his free Soul's chaines, to tear."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)
Date: 1667
"Conscience is Christs Vicar in mans heart, / It keeps Court there, and acts the Judges part"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"Pray'r is a Coach which by the Spirit driven, / Hurries our Souls into the Courts of Heaven."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1670
Weakness of mind may be water-like or wax-like
preview | full record— Greville, Fulke, first Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (1554-1628)