Date: 1661
"What difference is there 'twixt a man and beast, / (None sure at all, or little to be guest) / If't wan't for Reason, and an immortal spark, / Which hides it self within his hollow Ark?"
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Date: 1661
"For when the outward body doth consume, / In Hell such take their Hell-prepared room, / Their souls there having some such shape, or hue / Of beasts, whose actions they inclined to"
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Date: 1661
"These are but objects at a distance, these / Are but refreshments, and to give you ease, / To make thy Way the sweeter, till thou art / Hid in the Closet of Sophia's Heart."
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Date: 1661
"On this attracting Face our Pilgrim throws / His eyes, his Soul thorow those windows goes"
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Date: 1661
"He [Satan] sew'd his Tares of Errors, and did blind / With clouds of darknesse, Man's true eye, the Mind."
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Date: 1661
"This doth the understanding purge; the eye / O'th' Soul, the Mind from Motes do purifie."
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Date: 1661
"On this the King pitched his Mind's clear eye, / When he cry'd out, all things are vanity."
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Date: 1661
"Such were Love's Ardors, he could scarce forbear / His fettering flesh, his free Soul's chaines, to tear."
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Date: 1679
"With him [Chirst] I live, his word I hear, yet feel / No yielding to him in this heart of Steel."
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Date: 1679
"'Tis sure, thy heart hath too too many leaks, / Which sacred things let out, and then let in / Satans suggestions, the world, and sin"
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