Date: 1698
"Lastly, As this pretended Necessity of Explicating, and Meditating, quite degrades yours from being the Genuin, First, and, consequently, the Right Rule of Knowing Truth; so it abets ours, and gives it a Clear Title to be such a Rule, since the Self-evidence of those First Truths, express'd by I...
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: 1698
"This, I say, was evidently the Tenour of his Discourse; because, did not those Reasons of his, against the Sufficiency of our Senses to give us this Information, conclude; but that, notwithstanding all those Reasons could prove, the Senses might still imprint on our Mind those First Notions, his...
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: 1698
"For, in case those Impressions on our Mind could have been made by means of the Senses, as aforesaid; then those Impressions, or Notions, being the Immediate Foundation, on which is built all our Knowledge, could not be call'd, or resembl'd to Rubbish; nor compar'd to a Hole, to lay the Foundati...
preview | full record— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Date: 1698
"The lively Image of a Crucify'd Saviour then exhibited, could not but make very moving impressions on a mind of so much pious Warmth and Tenderness."
preview | full record— Atterbury, Francis (1663-1732)
Date: 1698
"In this Glass [her journal] she every Day dress'd her Mind, to this faithful Monitor she repair'd for Advice and Direction, compar'd the past with the present, judg'd of what would be by what had been, observ'd nicely the several successive Degrees of Holiness She got, and of humane Infirmity sh...
preview | full record— Atterbury, Francis (1663-1732)
Date: 1698
"You have paid Your sad Respects to Her; be not now wanting to Your selves: but 'Gird up the Loins of Your Mind', and be Ye comforted!"
preview | full record— Atterbury, Francis (1663-1732)
Date: w. 1694-1698, 1989
"Wn to my soul thou'st spoken peace / When from its bonds thou wilt my soul release / all my mourning then shall cease."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)
Date: 1698
"Such Licentious Discourse tends to no point but to stain the Imagination, to awaken Folly, and to weaken the Defences of Virtue."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1698
"The Matter is so Contrived that the Smut and Scum of the Thought rises uppermost; And like a Picture drawn to Sight, looks always upon the Company."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)
Date: 1698
"Enough to mud their Fancy, to tarnish their Quality, and make their Passion Scandalous."
preview | full record— Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726)