“Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!”
No. 48, preached upon the Day of St. Paul's Conversion, January 25, 1629
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“Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!”
No. 48, preached upon the Day of St. Paul's Conversion, January 25, 1629
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No. 76 http://books.google.com/books?id=eypXAAAAYAAJ&q=%22When+God's+hand+is+bent+to+strike+it+is+a+fearful+thing+to+fall+into+the+hands+of+the+living+God+but+to+fall+out+of+the+hands+of+the+living+God+is+a+horror+beyond+our+expression+beyond+our+imagination%22&pg=PA386#v=onepage, preached at Sion to The Earl of Carlisle and company (c. 1622)
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“The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I
Abjure my so much loved variety.”
No. 17, Variety, line 1
Elegies
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, stanza 2
VI. Metuit. The physician is afraid
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
“And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?”
No. 54, preached to the King at Whitehall, April 5, 1628
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No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 33
Elegies
XXVI Sermons, No. 26, Death's Duel, last sermon, February 15, 1631
No. 76, preached to the Earl of Carlisle, c. autumn 1622
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An Anatomy of the World, The First Anniversary
“O my America! my new-found land.”
No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 27
Elegies
The Anniversary, stanza 1
VI. Metuit. The physician is afraid
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
No. 18, Love's Progress, line 1
Elegies
Of the Progress of the Soul, The Second Anniversary
I. Insultus Morbi Primus; The first alteration, the first grudging of the sickness.
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II. Actio Læsa; The strength, and the functions of the senses, and other faculties change and fail.
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