Ductor dubitantium, or, The rule of conscience in all her generall measures serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience : in four books / by Jeremy Taylor ...

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Title: Ductor dubitantium, or, The rule of conscience in all her generall measures serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience : in four books / by Jeremy Taylor ...
Author: Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.
Publication: London :: Printed by James Flesher for Richard Royston ...,; 1660.
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RULE 7. A Conscience determin'd by the counsel of wise men, even against its own inclinations, may be sure and right.

FOR in many cases the counsel of wise men is the best argument; and if the conscience was first inclined by a weaker, every change to a better is a degree of certainty: In this case, to persist in the first inclination of consci∣ence, is obstinacy, not constancy: But on the other side, to change our first per∣swasion when it is well built, for the counsel of men of another perswasion, though wiser then our selves, is levity, not humility. This Rule is practicable onely in such cases where the Conscience observes the weakness of its first inducement, or justly suspects it, and hath not reason so much to suspect the sentence of wiser men. How it is further to be reduc'd to practice, is more properly to be considered in the third Chapter, and thither I referre it.