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Date: 1762

"The true heavenly David give, / The just and loving One, / After Thine own heart, to live, / And fix in us His throne."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Come, and 'stablish in my heart / Thine everlasting throne."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

God may "Fix in every heart of man / [His] everlasting throne"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"Come, and erect Thy throne / Eternal in my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

God may "reign in all our hearts alone."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"The holy, high, and lofty One / Shall make my heart His earthly throne"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762

"His Spirit send into our hearts, / Engraving on our inward parts / The living law of holiest love"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1762, 1868

"Hasten, Lord, the day of rest / From this indwelling sin, / Vindicate Thy church oppress'd, / And still enslaved within; / Burst our bonds, and let us go / From every thought of evil freed, / Pure in heart, and saints below, / And like our sinless Head."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1772

"Long I every means have tried / To subdue the inbred ill; / Still I am not sanctified, / Rules my ruling passion still."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1779, 1781

"This doctrine is in itself pernicious as well as false; its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination or overruling principle which cannot be resisted: he that admits it is prepared to comply with every desire that caprice or opportunity shall excite, and to flatter him...

— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.