Date: 1658
"O make me have respect / To all thy righteous Laws, begin / To purge out all my dross: my Tinn / Remove far from me"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"Cleanse me from soul infecting sin, / And purely purg away my dross, / O do thou take from me my Tin;"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"When God had framed man with wondrous art, / He after made his soul the nobler part; / He did his dross with sacred fire refine / And breath'd in him a soul, a soul divine."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1660
"Things that the least of drossy mixture hold, / Last longest; my Hearts flames Ætherial be, / More pure than seven times refined Gold / Than Cedar's flames: rays of a Deitie / They are."
preview | full record— Pordage, Samuel (bap. 1633, d. c. 1691)