Date: 1664
"What does the Soul, but (like an excellent Chymist) in this internal Laboratory of Man, by a fermentation of our nourishment in the stomach and guts, a filtration thereof through the Lacteae, a digestion in the Heart, a Circulation and Rectification in the Veins and Arteries: what does she, I sa...
preview | full record— Power, Henry (1623-1668)
Date: 1664
"So that it seems, this Cottage of Clay, with all its Furniture within it, was but made in subserviency to the Animal Spirits; for the extraction, separation, and depuration of which, the whole Body, and all the Organs and Utensils therein are but instrumentally contrived, and preparatorily desig...
preview | full record— Power, Henry (1623-1668)
Date: 1664
"So that when she has locked up the doors of this Laboratory the Body, she may be busie in augmenting, repairing, and regenerating all the Organs and Utensils within, and painting and plaistring the Walls without."
preview | full record— Power, Henry (1623-1668)
Date: 1664
"These things being thus premised, may it not be probable enough that these Spirits in the other World, shall onely be the Soul's Vehicle and Habit, and indeed really that [GREEK], mentioned by the Apostle; by a vital re-union with which, it may supereminently out-act all that ever she was able t...
preview | full record— Power, Henry (1623-1668)
Date: 1667
"The Cup-board serves to keep provision in, / Mans heart holds in it, either grace or sin."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"It's to the Castle of the Heart a Wall / Of Brass: it is a Christians coat of Mail, / How many do for want of it miscarry!"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"The heart is Gods peculiar Cabinet, / And Satan knows not what is in it set"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667, 1710
"O be at leisure to look within, and get David's Candle and Lanthorn to go into those dark Corners of your Soul with it, and it may be you may see that within which may make your Heart to ake, and your Joints to quiver, and your Spirits to faint within you."
preview | full record— Janeway, James (1636?-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"First crept / The parsimonious emmet, provident / Of future; in small room large heart enclosed"
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"But know that in the soul / Are many lesser faculties, that serve / Reason as chief; among these Fancy next / Her office holds; of all external things / Which the five watchful senses represent, / She forms imaginations, aery shapes, / Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames / All what...
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)