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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.
The time when conscience performs these actions is not before the sin, or in the act of s•••ing, but specially after the sin is done and past. Reason. I. Before a man sin, the devil doth extenuate the fault & make sin to be no ⟨p. 86⟩sin. II. Corrupt affections do for a time so blind and overcast judgement, that it doeth not see or at the least consider what is good or bad, till afterward.
The time when conscience perfourmes these actions is not before the sinne, or in the acte of s•••ing, but specially after the sinne is done and past. Reason. I. Before a man sinne, the deuill doth extenuate the fault & make sinne to be no ⟨p. 86⟩sinne. II. Corrupt affections doe for a time so blind and ouercast iudgement, that it doeth not see or at the least consider what is good or bad, till afterward.
Neither doth conscience accuse & condemn only for time present, but also long after a thing is done. The consciences of Josephs •hren accuse them 22. years after they had sold him into Egypt. Gen. 42. 21.
Neither doth conscience •ccuse & conde• only for time present, but also long after a thing is done. The consciences of Iosephs •hren accuse them 22. yeres after they had solde him into Egypt. Gen. 42. 21.