Date: 1652
"So that Reason is the Pen by which Nature writes this Law of her own composing; This Law 'tis publisht by Authority from heaven, and Reason is the Printer: This eye of the soul 'tis to spy out all dangers and all advantages, all conveniences and disconveniences in reference to such a being, and ...
preview | full record— Culverwell, Nathanael (bap. 1619, d. 1651)
Date: 1657
The fancy is "Commanding Empress of the brain, ubiquitary, faculty."
preview | full record— Poole, Joshua (c.1615–c.1656)
Date: 1660, 1676
"For although conscience be primarily founded in the understanding, as it is the Lawgiver and Dictator; and the rule and dominion of conscience 'fundatur in intellectu', is established in the understanding part; yet it is also Memory, when it accuses or excuses, when it makes joyful and sorrowful...
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
Date: 1660, 1676
"But these high and great expressions are better in the Spirit than in the letter; they have in them something of institution, and something of design, they tell us that Conscience is a guard and a guide, a rule and a law set over us by God, and they are spoken to make us afraid to sin against ou...
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
Date: 1660, 1676
"Our mind being thus furnished with a holy Rule, and conducted by a divine guide, is called Conscience; and is the same thing which in Scripture is sometimes called the heart."
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
Date: 1660, 1676
"I do suppose that this is the very spirit, which by the Apostle is said to be with the soul, as a pedagogue and social governor, that it may admonish the soul of better things, and chastise her for her faults, and reprove her."
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
Date: 1660, 1676
"For the conscience is a Judge and a Guide, a Monitor and a Witness, which are the offices of the knowing, not of the chusing faculty."
preview | full record— Taylor, Jeremy (bap. 1613, 1667)
Date: 1665
"The Understanding is to order all the inferiour services of the lower Faculties; but yet it is to do this only as a lawful Master, and not as a Tyrant."
preview | full record— Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
Date: 1667
"Conscience is Christs Vicar in mans heart, / It keeps Court there, and acts the Judges part"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"But know that in the soul / Are many lesser faculties, that serve / Reason as chief; among these Fancy next / Her office holds; of all external things / Which the five watchful senses represent, / She forms imaginations, aery shapes, / Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames / All what...
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)