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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.
Arg. 7. 1. Cor. 4. What will you that I come unto ⟨p. 48⟩you with a rod, or in the spirit of meekness? Now this rod is a judicial power of punishing sinners. Answ. For the regiment & protection of Gods Church. There be 2. rods m•oned in scripture: the rod of Christ, & the Apostolical rod. The rod of Christ is termed a rod of iron or the rod of his mouth, & it signifies that absolute & sovereign power which Christ hath over his creatures whereby he is able to convert & save them, or to forsake and destroy them. And it is a peculiar privilege of this rod to smite and wound the conscience. The Apostolical rod was a certain extraordinary power whereby God enabled them to plague and punish rebellious offenders with grievous judgements not in their souls but in their bodies alone. With this rod Paul smote Elimas blind, & Peter smote Ananias and Sapphira with bodily death. And it may be that Paul by this power did give up the incestuous man when he was excommunicate, to be vexed in his body and tormented by the devil: but that by this rod the Apostles could smite conscience, it can not be proved.
Arg. 7. 1. Cor. 4. What will you that I come unto ⟨p. 48⟩you with a rod, or in the spirit of meeknes? Now this rod is a iudicial power of punishing sinners. Answ. For the regiment & protection of Gods Church. There be 2. rods m•oned in scripture: the rod of Christ, & the Apostolicall rodd. The rod of Christ is termed a rod of iron or the rod of his mouth, & it signifies that absolute & soueraigne power which Christ hath ouer his creatures wherby he is able to cōuert & saue them, or to forsake and destroy them. And it is a peculiar priuiledge of this rodde to smite and wound the conscience. The Apostolicall rodde was a certaine extraordinary power whereby God inabled them to plague and punish rebellious offenders with grieuous iudgements not in their soules but in their bodies alone. With this rod Paul smote Elimas blind, & Peter smote Ananias and Saphira with bodily death. And it may be that Paul by this power did giue up the incestuous man when he was excommunicate, to be vexed in his body and tormented by the deuill: but that by this rodde the Apostles could smite conscience, it can not be prooued.