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Date: 1742

"Where heav'nly Reason with her temperate Light, / Teaches th'unbiass'd Mind to judge aright / There Property secure enjoys her own; / There Conscience sits untroubl'd on her Throne"

— Boyse, Samuel (1708-1749)

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Date: 1742

"Surely He shall the mourner cheer, / And make the broken heart His throne; / Shall break it first, and then bind up."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1742

"An Heart resign'd, submissive, meek, / My dear Redeemer's Throne, / Where only Christ is heard to speak, / Where Jesus reigns alone."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1742

"Come, gracious Lord, set up Thy Throne, / And reign within my Heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1742

"When Thou dost in my Heart appear, / And Love erects its Throne, / I then enjoy Salvation here, / And Heaven on Earth begun."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1742

"O Lord, my God, with shame I own / That other lords have sway'd, / Have in my heart set up their throne, / And abject I obey'd."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1742

"Enter my Heart, and fix Thy Throne / Thy Everlasting Presence there."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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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

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Date: 1743

"To lift my Vot'ries, in this partial Age, /Pleas'd without Pomp, self-conscious, and alone, / Nor rais'd, thus light, on Fancy's airy Throne"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

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Date: 1745

"He who his rising Anger can't controul, / Shall rue the Sallies of his heated Soul, / Shall wish, in Agony of Heart, undone / What Passion will'd in absent Reason's Throne."

— Whaley, John (bap. 1710, d. 1745)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.