A09400:107
A discourse of conscience wherein is set down the nature, properties, and differences thereofA discourse of conscience wherein is set downe the nature, properties, and differences thereof
A discourse of conscience wherein is set down the nature, properties, and differences thereof: as also the way to get and keep good conscience.A discourse of conscience wherein is set downe the nature, properties, and differences thereof: as also the way to get and keepe good conscience.
Cambridge: printed by John Legate, 1596Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legate, 1596
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If the case fall out otherwise, as commonly it doth, that humane laws be not enacted of things indifferent, but of things that be good in themselves, that is, commanded by God, then are they not […] properly but divine laws. Mens laws entreating of things that are morally good, and the parts of Gods worship, are the same with Gods laws: and therefore bind conscience, not because they were enacted by men, but because ⟨p. 63⟩they were first made by God: men being no more but instruments and ministers in his name to revive, renew, and to put in execution such precepts and laws as prescribe the worship of God, standing in the practise of true religion & virtue. Of this kind are all positive laws touching articles of faith, & the duties of the moral law. And the man that breaks such laws sins two ways, first because he breaks that which is in conscience a law of God, secondly because in disobeying his lawful magistrate, he disob• the general commandment of God touching magistracy.
If the case fall out otherwise, as commonly it doth, that humane laws be not inacted of things indifferent, but of things that be good in themselues, that is, commanded by God, then are they not 〈…〉 properly but divine lawes. Mens laws intreating of things that are morally good, and the parts of Gods vvorshippe, are the same with Gods laws: and therfore binde conscience, not because they were inacted by men, but because ⟨p. 63⟩they were first made by God: men beeing no more but instruments and ministers in his name to revive, renew, and to put in exequution such precepts and laws as prescribe the worship of God, standing in the practise of true religion & vertue. Of this kind are all positiue lawes touching articles of faith, & the duties of the morall law. And the man that breakes such lawes sinnes two waies, first because he breaks that which is in conscience a law of God, secondly because in disobaying his lawfull magistrate, he disob• the generall commandement of God touching magistracie.