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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 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.
The third is feare: in causing whereof conscience is very forcible. If a man had all the delightes and pleasures that heart can wish, they can not doe him any good, if conscience be guiltie. Belshazzar when hee was in the middest of all his delights, and saw the hand writing vpon the wall: his countenance changed, his thoughts trouble• him, his ioy•ts loosed, and his knees smote togither, Dan. 5. 6. Yea the guiltie conscience will make a man afraid, if hee see but a worme peepe out of the ground, or a silly creature to goe crosse his way, or if hee see but his owne shadowe on a sudda•, or if he do but forecast an euill with himselfe. Proverb. 28. 1. The vvicked flyeth vvh•• no man pur sueth him.
Terrors of conscience when they are more vehecause ⟨p. 88⟩