Metaphor	Year	Name	Title
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 the whole life of man"	1623	Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)	The Conscionable Christian
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 the whole life of man."	1623	Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)	The Conscionable Christian
"[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 characters of them cannot be cancelled or razed."	1623	Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)	The Conscionable Christian
"[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 characters of them cannot be cancelled or razed."	1623	Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)	The Conscionable Christian
"[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 characters of them cannot be cancelled or razed."	1623	Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)	The Conscionable Christian
"[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 characters of them cannot be cancelled or razed."	1623	Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)	The Conscionable Christian
"[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 characters of them cannot be cancelled or razed."	1623	Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)	The Conscionable Christian
"[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 characters of them cannot be cancelled or razed."	1623	Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)	The Conscionable Christian
"[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 characters of them cannot be cancelled or razed."	1623	Carpenter, Richard (1575-1627)	The Conscionable Christian
Conscience is "the Lord-Keeper, the Chancellor ... who keepeth a Chancery in the soule of man"	1623	Bourne, Immanuel (1590-1672)	The Anatomie of Conscience
Conscience is "the Lord-Keeper, the Chancellor ... who keepeth a Chancery in the soule of man"	1623	Bourne, Immanuel (1590-1672)	The Anatomie of Conscience
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."	1627	Hakewill, George (bap. 1578, d. 1649)	An Apologie of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World
"[A]gainst the book of the Law, hee shal be able to speake nothing, his Conscience telling him that the commaundements of the Lord are pure and righteous altogether: and for the booke of Conscience, against that he cannot possibly except, it being always in his owne keeping."	1627	Hakewill, George (bap. 1578, d. 1649)	An Apologie of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World
The young soul is likened to "a white paper unscribled with observations of the world, wherewith at length it becomes a blurr'd Note-booke"	1628	Earle, John (1601-1665)	A Childe [from Micro-Cosmographie]
"within my heart I made / Closets; and in them many a chest; / And like a master in my trade, / In those chests, boxes; in each box, a till: / Yet grief knows all, and enters when he will."	1633	Herbert, George (1593-1633)	Confession [from The Temple. Sacred poems and private ejaculations. By Mr George Herbert]
"within my heart I made / Closets; and in them many a chest; / And like a master in my trade, / In those chests, boxes; in each box, a till: / Yet grief knows all, and enters when he will."	1633	Herbert, George (1593-1633)	Confession [from The Temple. Sacred poems and private ejaculations. By Mr George Herbert]
"To worke more deepe impressions in his mind"	1635	Brathwaite, Richard (1587/8-1673)	Let 't not disraste my Lord, that I have heere [from Raglands Niobe]
Errors may be uprooted from the mind	1637	Descartes, René (1596-1650)	Discourse on the Method
Just as a painter can't represent all sides of a solid, a philosopher cannot put his whole mind into discourse	1637	Descartes, René (1596-1650)	Discourse on the Method
A fire that burns without light may be kindled in the heart of a body without a soul	1637	Descartes, René (1596-1650)	Discourse on the Method
Some philosophers think that there are pictures in the mind	1637	Descartes, René (1596-1650)	Optics
I am a thinking thing... not "thin vapour," "wind," "fire," "air," "breath," or whatever might be depicted in the imagination	1641	Descartes, René (1596-1650)	Meditations on First Philosophy
The mind enjoys wandering off, and it may be given free rein so that it may be more readily submit to being curbed	1641	Descartes, René (1596-1650)	Meditations on First Philosophy
One may be wrong even in those matters which he sees "utterly clearly with his mind's eye"	1641	Descartes, René (1596-1650)	Meditations on First Philosophy
Ideas are brought forth from the treasure house of the mind	1641	Descartes, René (1596-1650)	Meditations on First Philosophy