"Nay it is (as it were) a little god sitting in the middle of mens hearts arraigning them in this life as they shall be arraigned for their offences at the tribunall seate of the euerliuing god in the day of iudgement."
— Perkins, William (1558-1602)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Cambridge
Publisher
Printed by John Legate
Date
1596
Metaphor
"Nay it is (as it were) a little god sitting in the middle of mens hearts arraigning them in this life as they shall be arraigned for their offences at the tribunall seate of the euerliuing god in the day of iudgement."
Metaphor in Context
To giue iudgement is to determine, that a thing is well done or ill done. Herein conscience is like to a Iudge that holdeth an assize and takes notice of inditements, and causeth the most notorious malefactour that is to hold up his hand at the barre of his iudgement. Nay it is (as it were) a little god sitting in the middle of mens hearts arraigning them in this life as they shall be arraigned for their offences at the tribunall seate of the euerliuing god in the day of iudgement. Wherfore the temporary iudgement that is giuen by the conscience is nothing els but a beginning or a fore-unner of the last iudgement.
(p. 10)
(p. 10)
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Provenance
Reading Peter Goodrich's "The New Casuistry." Critical Inquiry Vol. 33, no. 4 (Summer 2007): 683. <Link to Critical Inquiry>
Citation
Perkins, William. A Discourse of Conscience. Cambridge: Printed by John Legate, 1596. <Link to EEBO>
Date of Entry
01/11/2010
