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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.
Who of […] […] […] 1of the faithful as long as he lives in this mortal condition, can pre s• th•• he is of the […] of the predestinate? And, De •ono persev. c. 22. No man can be secure t•ing […] all li••, till this life be ended. Bernard. epist. 107. Having •owe received the knowledge of him self in part he may rejoice in hope, but […] […] […] as ⟨p. 137⟩[…]. Hieron. Dan. 4. Let no man bolaly promise to another the pardon of his sins. III. Some places avouch that a man can not be sure of perseverance to the end without falls and decays in grace: all which we graunt. August. de civit. dei. li. 11. c. 12. Although the saints be *certain of the reward of their perseverance, yet they are found to be uncertain of the perseverance, it self: for what man can know that he shall persevere in the practise and increase of righteousness unto the end, except he be assured of it by some revelation. IV. Some places must be understood of experimental certainty, when the event is accomplished. Hieronym. book 2. against Pelagians. Callao man blessed before his end, for as long as we live here we are in the fight, and as long as we are in the fight we ha•• no […] victory. V. Some places speaks of the uncertainty of other mens sal•••tion, which we grant. The author of the book de v•• […]. G• […] ▪ clast. saith, we ca• price of […] […] before his end that he shall be in the glory of the […]. August. lib. […] Per sever. c. 13. Men are not w• any […] asseveration to […] that […] […] […] this calling. VI. Some speak of that […] which comes by revelation without the word. Greg. lib. 6. […]. 2. 10 Gregoria,