Date: w. c. 48-58, trans. 1611
"But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart."
preview | full record— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)
Date: w. c. 61-63?, trans. 1611
The heart may be blind
preview | full record— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)
Date: w. c. 61-63?, trans. 1611
"The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints"
preview | full record— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)
Date: 1682
"They compare a Wicked Man's Mind to a Vitiated Stomach; he corrupts whatever he receives, and the best Nourishment turns to the Disease. But, taking this for granted, a Wicked Man may yet be so far Oblig'd, as to pass for Ungrateful, if he does not Requite what be Receives."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1682
"Our Passions are nothing else but certain Disallowable Motions of the Mind; Sudden, and Eager; which, by Frequency, and Neglect, turn to a Disease; as a Distillation brings us first to a Cough, and then to a Phthisick."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
Date: 1693
"I grant this true: But, still, the deadly wound / Is in thy Soul: 'Tis there thou art not sound."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1693
"Knock on my Heart; for thou hast skill to find / If it sound solid, or be fill'd with Wind; / And, thro the veil of words, thou view'st the naked Mind."
preview | full record— Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Date: 1706
"But FANCY, that unease Guest / Still holds a Lodging in our Beast; / She finds or frames Vexations still, / Her self the greatest Plague we feel."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1707, 1710
"Nor should such ruffling Storms molest / The Halcyon Smoothness of thy Breast / Doubt, Avarice, and the pale Multitude / Of greedy Harpyes, which intrude / Ev'n at our Meals, no Entrance find / On the strong Armour of your Mind, / Which You can straiten or unbend."
preview | full record— Cobb, Samuel (bap. 1675, d. 1713)
Date: 1708
"Attend therefore with the Ears of thy Heart, and look sharply with the Eyes of thy Understanding, upon that which I shall shew thee; it may be thou may'st find so much in it, as may serve to lead thee into the right way."
preview | full record— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)