What Is the First Historical Source of the Illumination of Conscience?

According to watkins, it was saint edmund campion. He was a jesuit priest who evangelized in england in the 15 hundreds. Various authors cite him as predicting the warning when he says, this, i pronounced a great day. Not wherein any temporal potentate should minister, but wherein the terrible judge should reveal all men's consciences and try every man of each kind of religion. This is the day of change.