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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.
And I say that conscience is in all reasonable creatures, that none might imagine that some ⟨p. 4⟩men by nature have conscience in them, some none at all. For as many men as them are, so many consciences there be: and every particular man hath his own particular conscience.
And I say that conscience is in all reasonable creatures, that none might imagine that some ⟨p. 4⟩men by nature haue conscience in them, some none at all. For as many men as them are, so many consciences there be: and euery particular man hath his owne particular conscience.
The proper end of conscience is, to determine of things done. And by this one thing, conscience is distinguished from all other gifts of the min• as intelligence opinion, science faith, prudence. Intelligence simply conce• thing 1to be or not to be: science judgeth it to be certain and sure: faith is a persuasion, whereby we believe things that are not: […] discerneth what is meet to be done, what to be left undone; but conscience goes further yet then all these: for it determines or gives sentence of things done, by saying unto us, This was done, this was not done: this may be done, this may not be done this was well done, this was ill done.
The proper ende of conscience is, to determine of things done. And by this one thing, conscience is distinguished from all other gifts of the min• as intelligence opinion, science faith, prudence. Intelligence simply conce• thing 1