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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.
Good by creation was the conscience of Adam, which in the estate of innocency did only excuse & could not accu•• him for any thing: though it may be, an […] to accuse was not wanting▪ […] afterward an occasion should be offered. And hence we have further direction to consider what a good conscience is, namely such an one as by the order set down in the creation, exeth only without accu•. […] cuse is a defect in the […], following • ter the first creation. Fee naturally there is an agreement and harmony between the parts and the whole: but if the conscience should naturally accuse, there should be ad•ssent and disagr•• meant and division between the conscience and the man himself.
Good by creation was the conscience of Adam, which in the estate of innocencie did onely excuse & could not accu•• him for any thing: though it may be, an 〈…〉 to accuse was not wanting▪ 〈…〉 afterward an occasion should be offered. And hence we haue further direction to consider what a good conscience is, namely such an one as by the order set downe in the creation, ex•th onely without accu•. 〈…〉 cuse is a defect in the 〈…〉, following • ter the first creation. Fee na••rally there is an agreement and harmony betweene the parts and the whole: but if the conscience should naturally accuse, there should be ad•ssent and disagr•• ment and diuision betweene the conscience and the man himselfe.