Date: 1667
"His Spir't burns up our dross, & makes our graces / Sparkle like furnace gold"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"So are those minds that Gold admire do, / Barren, and haunted by the Devil too."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"God hath large showres of vengeance to pour down / Upon our guilty souls, unless we rent / Our rocky hearts, and speedily repent."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
"Mans body is a box till death it split / The Soul, that precious Gem is kept in it."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667
" But under God this Jewel [the Conscience], O esteem / For its great worth, as rarest next to Christ"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1679
"With him [Chirst] I live, his word I hear, yet feel / No yielding to him in this heart of Steel."
preview | full record— Slater, Samuel (c.1629-1704)
Date: 1697
"Thy Heart of Gold I do append, To this my Marble Breast,"
preview | full record— Cleland, William (1661?-1689)
Date: 1697
"What ever brought him here, or took him hence / It was no mean, or common influence, / Of Heavens best mettal, that inform'd his soul, / And made all vertue, but a blubr'd scrol / Of his great mind."
preview | full record— Cleland, William (1661?-1689)