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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.
In the making of this reason, conscience hath two assist• mind, and memory.
The mind is the storehouse and […] […] of all manner of rules and principles. It may be co• pared 1to a book of law, in which are […] down the penal statutes of the land. The of it it is to prefer and present to the conscience rules of divine law whereby it is to give judgement.
The mind is the storehouse and 〈…〉 〈…〉 of all manner of rules and principles. It may be co• pared 1to a booke of law, in which are 〈…〉 down the penall statutes of the lande. The of it it is to preferre and present to the conscience rules of diuine law whereby it is to giue iudgement.
- 1Min•• tells what is law.
Memory serves to bring to mind the particular actions which a man hath done or not done, 1that conscience may determine of them.
Memory serues to bring to mind the particular actions which a mā hath done or not done,