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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.
And though it be the office of conscience […] it is once •d principally to excuse, yet doth it also in part accuse. When David had •d the people his heart s• him. 2 Sam. 24. 10. Job faith in his affliction that God […] write bitter things against him & […] him possess the s•nnes of his youth. Job. 13. 26. The reason hereof is, because the whole man and the very conscience ⟨p. 149⟩is only in part regenerate, and therefore in some part remains still corrupt.
And though it be the office of conscience 〈…〉 it is once •d principally to excuse, yet doth it also in part accuse. When Dauid had •d the people his heart s• him. 2 Sam. 24. 10. Iob faith in his affliction that God 〈…〉 write bitter things against him & 〈…〉 him poss•sse the s•nnes of his youth. Iob. 13. 26. The reason hereof is, because the whole man and the very conscience ⟨p. 149⟩is onely in part regenerate, and therefore in some part remaines still corrupt.