Date: 1667
"God hath large showres of vengeance to pour down / Upon our guilty souls, unless we rent / Our rocky hearts, and speedily repent."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"Mans body is a box till death it split / The Soul, that precious Gem is kept in it."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
" But under God this Jewel [the Conscience], O esteem / For its great worth, as rarest next to Christ"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"Nor could they trouble us, but that our mind / Hath its own glory unto dross confin'd."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"So Age and Death by slow approches come, / And by that just inevitable doom / By which the Soul (her cloggy dross once gone) / Puts on Perfection, and resumes her own."
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood / Praying; for from the mercy-seat above / Prevenient grace descending had removed / The stony from their hearts, and made new flesh / Regenerate grow instead."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Him there they found / Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, / Assaying by his devilish art to reach / The organs of her fancy, and with them forge / Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1675
"And tears run trickling down her face, / Would e'en have mov'd a heart of brass."
preview | full record— Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Lucian (c.120- d. after 180)
Date: 1679
God "can wash off the soil [from the soul], refine the Ore, / And make it shine fairer than heretofore."
preview | full record— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)
Date: 1679
One may be "from all base alloy refin'd, / "More to resemble the Eternal Mind,"
preview | full record— Woodford, Samuel (1636-1700)