The Hireling Ministry, None of Christ's (1652)
Context: No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God. … I know no other True Sender, but the most Holy Spirit. <!-- p. 3 - 4
“Blessed God, pity the soul whose extremest horror is the doom of an eternal departure from Thee. Draw my spirit into the holiest and the nearest union with Thyself that is possible while it dwells in this flesh! And let me here commence that delightful residence and converse with God, which nor death, nor judgment shall ever destroy, nor shall a long eternity ever put a period to it.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 433.
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poet and writer 1674–1737Related quotes
“For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.”
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 37
Context: What may make me more to love mine even-Christians than to see in God that He loveth all that shall be saved as it were all one soul?
For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall. Right as there is a beastly will in the lower part that may will no good, right so there is a Godly Will in the higher part, which will is so good that it may never will evil, but ever good. And therefore we are that which He loveth and endlessly we do that which Him pleaseth.
Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim [citation needed]
Sunni Hadith
“Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,
Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.”
Act V, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
“If neither love nor pain
Will ever touch thy heart,
Then only God's in thee,
And then in God thou art”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
Summations, Chapter 53
Context: In this that I have now told was my desire in part answered, and my great difficulty some deal eased, by the lovely, gracious Shewing of our good Lord. In which Shewing I saw and understood full surely that in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall: which Will is so good that it may never will evil, but evermore continually it willeth good; and worketh good in the sight of God.
The Lily
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)