Date: 1742

"But Thou canst wash the leper clean, / The stone to flesh convert, / Canst make the Ethiop change his skin, / And purify my heart ."

— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)

Date: 1702

"Tho' the Righteous be in Bonds confin'd, / They inwardly sweet Satisfaction find."

— Mollineux [née Southworth], Mary (1651-1695)

Date: 1704

We lift our Reason up, yet are only able to survey "Dawnings of Beams, and Promises of Day"

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

Date: 1706

The mind's "raging anguish" may be healed

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

Date: 1706

"To Retain, to keep, or hold back a thing once deliver'd and afterwards demanded again; to preserve such good or bad Qualities as one had formerly; to keep in Mind, or to remember"

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Date: 1706

"Appetite, the Affection of the Mind, by which we are stirr'd up to any thing, inordinate Desire, Lust: Also the desire of Nourishment, or a Stomach to one's Victuals."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Date: 1706

"Conception, the Product of the Mind, as a Thought, Notion, or Principle; the Simple Ideas or apprehension that a Man has of any Thing, without proceeding to affirm or deny and Point relating thereto; also a Conceiving with Child, or breeding."

— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)

Date: 1707

The mind may be "soak'd in the bottom of the Belly" of one's Ignorance so that he needs the syrup of understanding and knowledge "to liquify the Matter" of his thoughts.

— Anonymous

Date: 1709

Honour is a "fatal Tumor of the Mind"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)

Date: 1709

"They fed the Body, but did feast the Mind"

— Gould, Robert (b. 1660?, d. in or before 1709)