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Date: 1675

"Well, since that thou dost thus desire to know / What I do Judge this Light within will do; / To satisfie thee I will make no doubt: / Man by this Light may find a God-head out."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

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Date: 1675

"Gods works don't teach [the manner of worship}, nor this Law of th'mind; / For if it would, Scriptures need not 'been pen'd,"

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

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Date: 1675

"They were i'th' dark, their heart was a dark room, / Till saving grace from God did thither come."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

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Date: 1675

"True faith within, doth but apply, / Unto the soul, the soveraign remedy; / 'Tis as a door, or like a window bright, / Which to dark souls lets in the precious light"

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

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Date: 1675

"Who th' Image yet unborn did entertain, / And hous'd the Theater within his Brain."

— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)

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Date: 1675

"The Intellectual Theater appear'd, / As in the Fancy by a Builder rear'd."

— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)

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Date: 1675

"Many such Theaters lodge in that Breast, / Where this at largest, a small space possest."

— Leigh, Richard (1649/50-1728)

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Date: 1675

"But when Christ's spirit comes i'th' soul to be, / From sin and bondage Christ doth set it free."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

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Date: 1679

"I'le praise his Name, who hath reveal'd / To me his everlasting Love, / Who with his stripes my Soul hath heal'd."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

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Date: 1679

"For the Black King that had usurp'd that Land, / An Ill shapt Bastard had, of proud command, / Whom having drest up in a much Gallantry, / He did appear so pleasant in her Eye, / That he before had her affections won, / And in her heart established his Throne."

— Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704)

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