Bishop Sanderson's Lectures on Conscience and Human Law
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ISBN13: 9780217182355
Paperback|9780217182355
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the word Conscience, as it expresses that share which the Wisdom of God lays claim to in the knowledge of human actions. 6. There is another acceptation wherein the Conscience may properly be called a Conjunction of Knowledge, as when a Man knows many things at once, or (which comes to the same) when he unites the Knowledge of many things different in themselves, and joins them by a mutual Application together. And from hence arises a second notion of the word, that was highly approved by Aquinas and most of the Schoolmen, and is in my opinion to be preferred to the first, just mentioned, because it serves to discover and illustrate the Force and the Nature of Conscience, making it the conjunction of knowledge to knowledge, and as it adds the general Knowledge of what is Right to a particular knowledge of what is Fact, and applies the one to the other. I shall explain my Meaning by an instance or two. In the History of David3 we read, that his Heart smote him, after he had cut off the skirt of Saul's garment in the cave; or, in other words, his Conscience pricked him. Upon this Occasion, we may suppose David thus reflecting with himself: I well know that no force should be offered against the Sacred Person of a King; and I arn sensible likewise that what I lately did will seem very little different from the use of Force, which makes me fear I have contracted a stain upon my Integrity: However, I adore the Goodness of God, who laid a restraint upon me, and kept me back from an actual violation of it. We may likewise imagine the Conscience of the traitor Judas reasoning with him thus: Thou knewest that thy Master ought not to have been betrayed, and yet thou knowest thou didst most basely betray him. Thus by taking a particular Knowledge of a Fact actually, or 3 I ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217182355 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217182356 |
| Weight | 0.74 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 224 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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