Date: 1742

"Thy presence, Lord, the place shall fill, / My heart shall be Thy throne, / Thy holy, just, and perfect will / Shall in my flesh be done."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1744

"but the French being a people in whom the love of glory is the predominant passion, were more than any other nation charmed with the greatness of that prince's soul."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1744

"[W]e are here idle at present, but shall not long be so; and you will have occasions enough to prove your courage, and gratify that love of arms which, my brother informs me, is the predominant passion of your soul."

— Haywood [née Fowler], Eliza (1693?-1756)

Date: 1744, 1868

God may "fix in every sinless heart / His throne of everlasting love."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1744

"I do verily think there is not any other medicine whatsoever so effectual to restore a crazy constitution, and cheer a dreary mind, or so likely to subvert that gloomy empire of the spleen (Sect. 103) which tyrannizeth over the better sort (as they are called) of these free nations, and maketh t...

— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

Date: 1747

Jesus can vindicate his "right Divine" and "Conquer this rebellious heart"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1749

"With distant Voice neglected Virtue calls, / Less heard, and less the faint Remonstrance falls; / Tir'd with Contempt, she quits the slipp'ry Reign, / And Pride and Prudence take her Seat in vain."

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

Date: 1749

God may one's "longing heart vouchsafe to make / [His] everlasting throne"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1749

God may "Come quickly" and "in every heart / Set up [His] throne of love

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1749

"Long did our lusts and passions reign, / And ruled us with an iron rod"

— Wesley, John and Charles