Date: 1738, 1739

"Like Twigs, entrusted to the Planter's Pains, / Who prunes, engrafts, indulges, or restrains, / Till in the Garden Ornament they yield, / And Fruit, which else had cumber'd up the Field: / Or that rich Ore we from the Indies bring, / Which bears, refin'd, the Image of the King; / But mix'd for-e...

— Bancks, John (1709-1751)

Date: 1739

"Philosophy ... raises [one] above the rest of human Kind, and gives the sovereign Empire to Reason, subjecting the animal Part to its Laws, the gross Appetite of which debases us to Beasts"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

Date: 1739

"This Empire which Reason holds over the Senses, does not make us renounce the Sweets of Praise"

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

Date: 1739

A woman may have one heart in subjection to her empire

— Baker, Henry (1698-1774); Miller, James (1706-1744)

Date: 1739, 1740

"Was there one joy, whose image does not last? / But that One; most extatic, most refin'd, / Reigns fresh, and will for ever in my mind, / With such a power of charms it storm'd my soul, / That nothing ever can it's strength controul."

— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

Date: 1739

"And in my Heart, a little Heav'n, / Thy Throne triumphant raise."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1739

"JESUS makes our Hearts his Throne, / There he lives, and reigns alone."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1739

"O come, and consecrate my Breast: / The Temple of my Soul prepare, / And six thy Sacred Presence there!"

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1739

"True Witness of my Sonship Thou, / Engraving Pardon on my Heart: / Seal of my Sins in CHRIST forgiven, / Earnest of Love, and Pledge of Heav'n."

— Wesley, John and Charles

Date: 1739

"Let all my Pow'rs thy Entrance feel, / And deeper stamp Thyself the Seal."

— Wesley, John and Charles