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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 second passion is sadness and sorrow: which is commonly thought to be nothing else but Melancholy: but between them twa••e, there is great difference. Sorrow that comes by melancholy ariseth only of that humour annoying the body, but this other sorrow ariseth of a mans sins for which his conscience accuseth him. Melancholy may be cured by phi•e this sorrow […] not be cured by any thing but by the blood of Christ.
The second passion is sadnesse and sorrowe: which is commonly thought to be nothing else but Melancholy: but betweene them twa••e, there is great difference. Sorow that comes by melancholly ariseth onely of that humour annoying the body, but this other sorrow ariseth of a mans sinnes for which his conscience accuseth him. Melancholly may be cured by phi•e this sorow 〈…〉 not be cured by any thing but by the blood of Christ.
The third is fear: in causing whereof conscience is very forcible. If a man had all the delights and pleasures that heart can wish, they can not do him any good, if conscience be guilty. Belshazzar when he was in the middest of all his delights, and saw the hand writing upon the wall: his countenance changed, his thoughts trouble• him, his joy•ts loosed, and his knees smote together, Dan. 5. 6. Yea the guilty conscience will make a man afraid, if he see but a worm peep out of the ground, or a silly creature to go cross his way, or if he see but his own shadow on a sudda•, or if he do but forecast an evil with himself. Proverb. 28. 1. The wicked flieth wh•• no man purr sueth him.