Date: 1657
The fancy is "Commanding Empress of the brain, ubiquitary, faculty."
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Date: 1657
Fancy is "The immateriall Coyner. That makes a bodilesse Creation."
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Date: 1657
The fancy is a "Boundlesse, restlesse faculty, free from all engagements, diggs without spade, sails without Ships, Flies without wings, builds without charges, fights without bloodshed, in a moment striding from the Center to the circumference of the world, by a kind of omnipotency creating and ...
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Date: 1658
"And in the furnace of affliction, / Their drossie souls thou dost refine"
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Date: 1658
"Our hearts all vice, as Amphitane gold draws, / The Load-stone iron, as the Amber strawes."
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Date: 1658
"As by instinct the Loadstone draws / The iron, as the Amber straws; / So let thy grace mine heart attract, / Dear Lord!"
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Date: 1658
"O make me have respect / To all thy righteous Laws, begin / To purge out all my dross: my Tinn / Remove far from me"
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Date: 1658
"Cleanse me from soul infecting sin, / And purely purg away my dross, / O do thou take from me my Tin;"
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Date: 1658
"The Alc'ran sayes, (which who will may beleeve) / The Moon descended into Mahomet's sleeve: / 'Tis strange! yet God doth his loves lamp impart / T'a more coarcted room, what's that? the heart."
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Date: 1658
"O may the lustre of those rayes divine / Be alwaies sparkling in this heart of mine!"
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