Date: c. 1603
"On waxen tablets you cannot write anything new until you rub out the old. With the mind it is not so; there you cannot rub out the old till you have written in the new."
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
Date: 1606
"There is a ground or principle written in every mans heart in the world, none excepted, that there is a God."
preview | full record— Perkins, William (1558-1602)
Date: 1611
The law of nature is "written in the hearts of all men"
preview | full record— Sclater, William (bap. 1575, d. 1627)
Date: 1615
"Afterwards, as a Merchant that had lost all his inheritance in one bottom, he was to begin the world anew, and to gather an estate or stock of knowledge, by the travel and industry of his soul and body; yet was not his soul Abrasa Tabula, a playned Table, there remained some Lineaments which the...
preview | full record— Crooke, Helkiah (1576-1648)
Date: April 18, 1619
"when thy book (the history of thy life,) is torn, 1000. sins of thine own torn out of thy memory, wilt thou then present thy self thus defac'd and mangled to almighty God?"
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1621
" It was (as I said) once well agreeing with reason, and there was an excellent consent and harmony between them, but that is now dissolved, they often jar, reason is overborne by passion: Fertur equis auriga, nec audit currus habenas, as so many wild horses run away with a chariot, and will not ...
preview | full record— Burton, Robert (1577-1640)
Date: 1623
"[Conscience is a book] euen in thine owne bosome, written by the finger of God, in such plaine Characters, and so legible, that though thou knowest not a letter in any other booke, yet thou maist reade this"
preview | full record— Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)
Date: 1623
Conscience is "a noble and divine power and faculty, planted of God in the substance of a mans soule, working upon it selfe by reflection, and taking exact notice, as a Scribe or Register, and determingin Gods Viceroy and deputy, Judge of all that is in the mind, will, affections, actions, and th...
preview | full record— Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)
Date: 1623
"[C]onscience, as a Scribe or Notary, sitting in the closet of mans heart, with pen in hand, records and keepes a Catalogue, or Diary of all our Doings, of the time when, place where, the manner how they were performed, adn that so cleere and evident, that goe where we will, doe what we can, the ...
preview | full record— Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)
Date: 1627
A sinner cannot deny his sins, "being convinced by two evidences against which there can bee no exception, the booke of the Law, & the booke of his owne Conscience, the one shall show him what he should have done, & the other what he hath done."
preview | full record— Hakewill, George (bap. 1578, d. 1649)