Christian see to thy conscience or a treatise of the nature, the kinds and manifold differences of conscience, all very briefly, and yet more fully laid open then hitherto by Richard Bernard, parson of Batcombe in Somerset-Shire. Anno 1630.

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Christian see to thy conscience or a treatise of the nature, the kinds and manifold differences of conscience, all very briefly, and yet more fully laid open then hitherto by Richard Bernard, parson of Batcombe in Somerset-Shire. Anno 1630.
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Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.
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London :: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Edward Blackmore, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Angell,
1631.
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Conscience -- Early works to 1800.
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"Christian see to thy conscience or a treatise of the nature, the kinds and manifold differences of conscience, all very briefly, and yet more fully laid open then hitherto by Richard Bernard, parson of Batcombe in Somerset-Shire. Anno 1630." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08989.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.

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Section 4. Whether this Conscience neuer stirreth.

HEre it may be demanded, Whether this so quiet a Conscience euer resteth quiet?

Answ. It is quiet, but yet so, as it will not faile to performe it duty to him whose it is, when hee is ei∣ther ready to fall, or hath slipped a little out of the way: but it doth it friend∣ly, as I may say; it flyeth not furiously into the face of the offender, as the ill quiet Conscience will; but

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louingly with a quiet check seekes to preuent sin, or to recall one backe for sinne, and hauing obtained the effect of reproofe, it resteth, and is quiet; yea, it comforteth, and encoura∣geth to well-doing, which the other ill conscience cannot, nor doth not.

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