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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.
Now conscience assisted by these […], proceeds in judgement by a kind of argumentation: an example whereof we may take from the conscience of a murderer thus. Every […] •er is […] •ed, saith the mind; Thou art a murderer, saith conscience assisted by memory. ergo, Thou art accur sed, saith conscience, and so giveth her sentence.
Now conscience assisted by these 〈…〉, proceeds in iudgement by a kinde of argumentation: an example whereof we may take from the conscience of a murderer thus. Euery 〈…〉 •er is 〈…〉 •ed, saith the minde; Thou art a murderer, saith conscience assisted by memory. ergo, Thou art accur sed, saith conscience, and so giueth her sentence.