court of conscience

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And the discussion of a knotty point in the court of conscience.

From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry

This they do not only in the interior court of conscience, but with outward proceedings in the exterior court by excommunications, declarations, and the taking of measures to stop that which is being done.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Therefore, Equiprobabilism does right in making these the guiding principles for the court of conscience.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

Of the moral question the arbiter could take no account; it is not there, indeed, that moral questions must find their solution, but in the court of conscience.

From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

Therefore human law cannot impose its precept in a Divine court, such as is the court of conscience.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint