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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.
Secondly we learn, that God doth watch over all men by a special providence. The master of a prison is known by this to have care over his prisoners, if he send keepers with them to watch them and to bring them home again in time convenient: and so Gods care to man is manifest in this, that when he created man and placed him in the world, he gave him conscience to be his keeper to follow him always at the heels & to dog him (as we say) & to pry into his actions & to bear witness of them all.
Secondly we learne, that God doth watch ouer all men by a speciall prouidence. The master of a prison is knowen by this to haue care ouer his prisoners, if hee send keepers with them to watch them and to bring them home againe in time convenient: and so Gods care to man is manifest in this, that when he created man and placed him in the worlde, he gaue him conscience to be his keeper to follow him alwaies at the heeles & to dogge him (as we say) & to pry into his actions & to beare witnesse of them all.
Thirdly hence we may observe Gods goodness and love to man. If he do any thing amiss, he sets his conscience first of all to tell him of it sec•edy: if then he amend, God forgives it: if ⟨p. 10⟩not, then afterward conscience must openly accuse him for it at the bar of Gods judgement before all the saints and angels in heaven.
Thirdly hence we may obserue Gods goodnesse and loue to man. If he do any thing amisse, he sets his conscience first of all to tell him of it sec•edy: if then he amende, God forgives it: if ⟨p. 10⟩not, then afterward conscience must openly accuse him for it at the barre of Gods iudgement before all the saints and angels in heauen.