Prison-Pietie or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London |
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On Conscience. |
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On Conscience.
The Conscience is a Function of the Minde,A Guide to Straglers, to the Lame, and Blinde.
Over the Will the Conscience sits commanding,
And is a Guardian to the Understanding:
For what the Pen of Nature doth engrave
Upon that general Knowledge which we have,
Or to our Thoughts, our Minds, or to our Acts,
Conscience applies, and summons up our Facts.
Paul our Example was of Innocence,
Having a Conscience void of all offence
Both towards God, and towards men, so cleer,
That his own Conscience was his Overseer.
Christian, unto thy Conscience have an eye,
Lest Conscience doth accuse, for that's a spie.
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