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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.
Conscience is either good or bad.
COnscience is either good or badde.
Good conscience is that which rightly according to Gods word, excuseth and comforteth. For the excellence, goodness, and dignity of conscience, stands not in accusing, but in excusing. And by doing any sin whatsoever ⟨p. 96⟩to give an occasion to the conscience to •use or condemn, is to wound it and to offend in Thus Paul saith that the Corinthians •ded the consciences of their […] […]; wh• they used their liberty as an •ccasian of offence to them 1. Cor. 8. 9. […]. Again he calleth a good conscience, a conscience without offence, that i•, which hath no stop o• […] to hinder it from excusing, Act. 24. 16.
Good conscience is that which rightly according to Gods worde, excuseth and comforteth. For the excellence, goodnes, and dignitie of conscience, standes not in accusing, but in excusing. And by doing any sinne whatsoeuer ⟨p. 96⟩to giue an occasion to the conscience to •use or condemne, is to wound it and to offend in Thus Paul saith that the Corinthians •ded the consciences of their 〈…〉 〈…〉; wh they vsed their libertie as an ccasian of offence to them