Date: November 4, 1672, 1673
"Thou Live, and yet speak against Drinking, the very thing that distinguishes the Life of Man from that of a Beast! Why, 'tis the onely Spur of Wit and Reason; I have heard more new thoughts in Drinking three hours, then the best Modern Play can furnish you with; Therefore if thou would'st Live, ...
preview | full record— Payne, Henry [alias Henry Nevill] (d. 1705?)
Date: 1688
"When Friends advice with Lovers forces joyn, / They'll conquer Hearts more fortify'd than mine"
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1688
"Here's Cavities, says one; and here, says he, / Is th' Seat of Fancy, Judgment, Memory: / Here, says another, is the fertile Womb, / From whence the Spirits Animal do come, / Which are mysteriously ingender'd here, / Of Spirits from Arterious Blood and Air: / Here, said a third, Life made her fi...
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)
Date: 1696
Fancy may over-rule reason
preview | full record— Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735)
Date: 1700
"Our Understandings have a Natural, which is a Fallible-light; and therefore often leads us wrong."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"It is true, that the word Baptism is often taken in a Figurative and Allegorical Sense, to mean the INWARD BAPTISM, the Washing, or Cleansing of the Heart: But so is the word Washing also, as often, as Jer. iv. 14. &c. And there is scarce a Word in the World but is capable of many Figurative an...
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"We our selves are Figures of God, being Images of him: And what is an Image but the Figure or Sign of a Thing?"
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"Now if the Soul, which is but an Image of God, at an Infinite distance, can communicate it self to several Members, without breach of its Unity; why should it be Impossible for the Eternal and Infinite Mind to communicate it self to several Persons, without breach of its Unity; I will be bold to...
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"God has placed a Natural light, as a Candle in our Hearts; and His Supernatural light does Influence and Direct it."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)
Date: 1700
"Solomon says, Prov. xx. 27. The Spirit of man is the Candle of the Lord, searching all the Inward Parts."
preview | full record— Leslie, Charles (1650-1722)

