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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
Chapter 4: U. Mans duty touching conscience.Chapter 4: U. Mans dutie touching conscience.
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 a just and serious examination of the conscience by the law, that we may see what is our estate before God. And this is a duty upon which the Prophets stand very much, Lam. 3. 40. Man suffereth for sin let us search and try our hearts, and turn again to the Lord. Zeph. 2. 1. Fan your selves, fan you, O nation, not worthy to be loved. In making examination, we must specially take notice of that which doth now lie, or may hereafter lie upon the conscience. And after […] examination hath been made, a man comes •o a knowledge of his sins in particular, and of his wretched and miserable estate. When one enters into his house at midnight, he finds or sees nothing out of order: but let him come in the day time when the […] shineth, and ⟨p. 160⟩he shall then ••p•• many faults in the house, and the very motes that fly up and down; so let a man search his heart in the ignorance & blindness of his mind, he will straightway think all is well: but let him once begin to search himself with the light and lantern of the law, and he shall find many foul corners in his heart and many heaps of sins in his life.
The third, is a iust and serious examination of the conscience by the lawe, that we may see what is our estate before God. And this is a duty vpon which the Prophets stande very much, Lam. 3. 40. Man suffereth for sinne let us search and trie our hearts, and turne againe to the Lord. Zeph. 2. 1. Fanne your selues, fanne you, O nation, not vvorthie to be loued. In making examination, we must specially take notice of that which doth now lie, or may hereafter lie vpon the conscience. And after 〈…〉 examination hath beene made, a man comes •o a knowledge of his sinnes in particular, and of his wretched and miserable estate. When one enters into his house at midnight, he findes or sees nothing out of order: but let him come in the day time when the shineth, and