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"Elizabethan"
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"Calvinist"
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Work title:
"A Discourse of Conscience"
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Date: 1596
"For as the sicke man, vvhen he seemes to sleepe and take his rest, is invvardly full of troubles: so the benummed and drousie conscience wants not his secret pangs and terrours; and when it shal be roused by the iudgement of God, it waxeth cruell and fierce like a wild beast."
preview | full record— Perkins, William (1558-1602)