Date: 1667

"The Conscience was ever, and is still / The fountain of all actions, good or ill;"

— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Date: 1667

" Conscience is Gods Vice-Roy in the Soul, / And all are liable to its controul."

— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Date: 1667

Conscience is "the Souls Anchor"

— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Date: 1667

" But under God this Jewel [the Conscience], O esteem / For its great worth, as rarest next to Christ"

— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Date: 1667

Conscience "is our Patron, our Apologist; / It is impartial, active, and sincere, / Gods Register in us; his Harbinger / For to prepare his way; this is beside / Mans faithful Surety, Treasurer and Guide."

— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Date: 1667

" Good Conscience is the only Ark that can / Ding down the Dagons of all deeds prophane"

— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Date: 1667

"A Conscience unstain'd with blushing crimes, / Holds out in all changes of States and Times. / Mount Sion and good Conscience abide / For ever"

— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Date: 1667

"Good Conscience will speak within, when all breath, / The doors are shut to ev'ry vocal call."

— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Date: 1667

"But he that shipwracks a good Conscience shall / Let in great riches, but the Devil withal"

— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)

Date: 1704

"Erect your schemes with as much method and skill as you please; yet, if the materials be nothing but dirt, spun out of your own entrails (the guts of modern brains), the edifice will conclude at last in a cobweb; the duration of which, like that of other spiders’ webs, may be imputed to their be...

— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)