Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	law_n	sin_n	transgression_n	2,525	5	10.8527	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19065	Christian offices crystall glasse In three bookes. First written in Latine, by that famous and renowned Father, Saint Ambrose Bishop of Millane. Whereunto is added his conuiction of Symmachus the Gentile. A worke tending to the advancement of vertue, and of holinesse: and to shew how much the morality of the Gentiles, is exceeded by the doctrine of Christianity. Translated into English by Richard Humfrey ...; De officiis. English	Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397.; Humfrey, Richard.	1637 (1637)	STC 548; ESTC S100171	335,831	469

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sure_a warrant_n of_o the_o holy_a ghost_n testify_v that_o rom_n 8.7_o hic_fw-la observemus_fw-la hominis_fw-la voluntatem_fw-la divinae_fw-la voluntati_fw-la per_fw-la omne_fw-la adversari_fw-la calv._n all_o wisdom_n of_o the_o flesh_n be_v enmity_n against_o god_n the_o adversary_n sophist_n restrain_v it_o to_o sensuality_n but_o 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d 〈◊〉_d be_v not_o of_o the_o sense_n but_o of_o the_o reason_n whereby_o it_o appear_v that_o the_o reasonable_a part_n with_o the_o will_n as_o well_o as_o the_o sensual_a be_v averse_a from_o god_n and_o so_o much_o do_v the_o ordinary_a omnis_fw-la infidelium_fw-la vita_fw-la peccatum_fw-la est_fw-la gloss_n intimate_v and_o so_o do_v lib._n 6._o annotat._n 25●_n anselm_n &_o ambros_n l._n 1._o de_fw-la vocat_fw-la gent._n speak_v to_o this_o sense_n sixtus_n senensis_n a_o learned_a man_n of_o their_o own_o side_n lib._n 5._o cap._n 6._o bellarmine_n see_v these_o strait_n slip_v by_o it_o and_o fall_v upon_o another_o lib._n 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