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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 15 › Verse 21
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 first office or work of conscience is to observe, and take notice of what we do, conscience should, as it were, keep a Day-Book, and follow us up and down with Pen and Ink, to write all our motions.
The first office or work of conscience is to observe, and take notice of what we doe, conscience should, as it were, keep a Day-Book, and follow us up and downe with Pen and Inke, to write all our motions.
A second work of conscience is to testify what we have done, and which way we have moved.
A second worke of conscience is to testifie what we have done, and which way we have moved.
A third, is, to accuse us when we do evil, and to acquit us ⟨p. 100⟩when we do well: Now as a wicked mans conscience is always morally evil, because stained, and polluted with sin: So many times his conscience is naturally evil too; that is, it will neither take notice of, nor check him for his sin. When the wicked mans conscience is in this evil state, he thinks his state good enough, and so he is at quiet.
A third, is, to accuse us when we doe evill, and to acquit us ⟨p. 100⟩when we doe well: Now as a wicked mans conscience is alwayes morally evill, because stained, and polluted with sin: So many times his conscience is naturally evill too; that is, it will neither take notice of, nor check him for his sin. When the wicked mans conscience is in this evill state, he thinkes his state good enough, and so he is at quiet.