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The truth of the times vindicated whereby the lawfulness of Parliamentary proceedings in taking…The truth of the times vindicated whereby the lawfulnesse of Parliamentary procedings in taking…
The truth of the times vindicated whereby the lawfulness of Parliamentary proceedings in taking up of arms, is justified, Doctor Ferns reply answered, and the case in question more fully resolved / by William Bridge ...The truth of the times vindicated whereby the lawfulnesse of Parliamentary procedings in taking up of arms, is justified, Doctor Fernes reply answered, and the case in question more fully resolved / by William Bridge ...
London: printed by T.P. and M.S. for Ben. Allen, 1643
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE READER. › Chapter 4AN INTRODVCTION TO THE READER. › Chapter 4
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1I will not search into the Doctors Book for every word, take what he granteth here, yet this soldierly boldness of rescuing is more then Prayers, tears, reproofs, or denials of subsidies and aids, which is all the remedy that he affordeth as he confesseth now: Yet the Doctor is so full of this sentence still, that in the 51. pag. of this book, he saith, that the Children of Israel being under the oppression of their Kings, had no remedy they had, was by crying to the Lord; And again in the same page saith, all the remedy they had, was by crying to the Lord; so also in his first book pag. 10. the people are let to understand, I Sam. 8. II. how they should be oppressed under Kings, and have no remedy left them but crying to the Lord. Thus do men forget themselves, and what they have said whilst they contend against truth.
1I will not search into the Doctors Booke for every word, take what he granteth here, yet this souldierly boldnes of rescuing is more then Prayers, teares, reproofes, or denialls of subsidies and aids, which is all the remedy that he affordeth as he confesseth now: Yet the Doctor is so full of this sentence still, that in the 51. pag. of this book, he saith, that the Children of Israel being under the oppression of their Kings, had no remedie they had, was by crying to the Lord; And againe in the same page saith, all the remedie they had, was by crying to the Lord; so also in his first booke pag. 10. the people are let to understand, I Sam. 8. II. how they should be oppressed under Kings, and have no remedy left them but crying to the Lord. Thus doe men forget themselves, and what they have said whilest they contend against truth.
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Then the Doctor comes down to the example of David: And whereas it is urged by us that David did take up Arms to defend himself from the violence of his Prince Saul, the Dr. replies now as before, that Davids example was extraordinary. Well but when it is said that David having advantage of Saul, did not lay hands upon him to cut him off as he might have done; what if we should say, that Act of Davids was extraordinary would not the Doctor tell us that our Answer was but ordinary: he tells us, pag. 31. of his Reply, that Conquest, one of the means by which Godiranstates Kingdoms, and that David