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B01215 Good conscience: or a treatise shewing the nature, meanes, marks, benefit, and necessitie thereof. By Ier: Dyke; minister of Gods word at Epping in Essex.. Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. 1626 (1626) STC 7415.5; ESTC S91797 128,341 350

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and_o give_v he_o cause_n of_o much_o joy_n and_o triumph_n job_n then_o have_v his_o witness_n in_o heaven_n &_o job_n have_v his_o witness_n on_o earth_n god_n and_o his_o own_o conscience_n two_o witness_n beyond_o all_o exception_n and_o in_o the_o mouth_n of_o two_o witness_n every_o truth_n shall_v stand_v conscience_n be_v a_o thousand_o witness_n and_o god_n be_v above_o conscience_n and_o what_o conscience_n witness_v concern_v matter_n of_o fact_n god_n himself_o will_v justify_v the_o same_o he_o that_o have_v a_o good_a conscience_n have_v a_o sure_a friend_n that_o will_v neither_o slink_v nor_o shrink_v at_o any_o hand_n nay_o he_o have_v two_o good_a friend_n and_o two_o substantial_a witness_n who_o testimony_n though_o secret_a yet_o be_v such_o as_o sweet_o solace_v the_o heart_n of_o man_n against_o open_a reproach_n slander_n false_a witness_n &_o all_o wrong_n and_o injury_n of_o that_o kind_n whatsoever_o the_o testimony_n of_o conscience_n be_v full_a of_o 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the_o world_n reproach_n censure_n slander_n etc._n etc._n yet_o a_o good_a conscience_n can_v and_o will_v speak_v peace_n and_o comfort_n to_o a_o man_n heart_n the_o corinthian_n do_v exceed_o slight_a 38._o faelix_fw-la conscientia_fw-la non_fw-la sibi_fw-la in_o aliquo_fw-la conscia_fw-la quae_fw-la non_fw-la proprium_fw-la iudicium_fw-la nec_fw-la alienum_fw-la veretur_fw-la bern_n de_fw-fr conscience_n beata_fw-la plane_n quae_fw-la non_fw-la alienis_fw-la aestimatur_fw-la iudiciis_fw-la sed_fw-la domesticis_fw-la percipitur_fw-la sensibus_fw-la tamquam_fw-la svi_fw-la iudex_fw-la neque_fw-la enim_fw-la populares_fw-la opiniones_fw-la pro_fw-la mercede_fw-la aliqua_fw-la requirit_fw-la neq_fw-la prosupplicio_fw-la pavet_fw-la ambros_n the_o offic_n l._n 2._o c_o 1._o n●n_fw-la possunt_fw-la aliena_fw-la verba_fw-la crimen_fw-la affigere_fw-la quod_fw-la propria_fw-la non_fw-la recepit_fw-la conscia_fw-la ambrin_n ps_n 38._o paul_n he_o be_v this_o and_o he_o be_v that_o but_o 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