Date: 1679

God "can wash off the soil [from the soul], refine the Ore, / And make it shine fairer than heretofore."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

Date: 1679

"Lose not the Soul, (the wax) for nought can bear / This Image then, nor can that loss repair."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

Date: 1679

One may be "from all base alloy refin'd, / "More to resemble the Eternal Mind,"

— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)

Date: 1679

" But make me' a Seal upon Thy Heart! / A Badg Thou on Thy Arm mayst wear,"

— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)

Date: 1679

"When Conscience had almost (in truth) persuaded / Thee to repent, it was straightway invaded / By thy blind Understanding, and dark mind"

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

Date: 1679

"You'l find it worse and worse; and what's behind / Will strange Impressions make upon your Mind."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

Date: 1679

"Ah! I may preach untill my heart doth ake, / And it on thee will no Impression make."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

Date: 1679

"It is attracting Love, its nature's such, / 'Tis like the Loadstone; hadst thou once a touch, / 'Twould make thy Iron-heart with speed to move, / Nay, cleave to him in bonds of purest Love."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

Date: 1679

"'Tis he [Satan] that keeps the Soul in Iron Chains, / And robs her of all Sense; lest those great pains / She otherwise might feel, should make her cry / To be deliver'd from his slavery."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

Date: 1679

"No Orator on Earth like him could speak, / So powerfully, and sweet enough to break / And melt a breast of Steel, or heart of Stone"

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)