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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 5AN INTRODVCTION TO THE READER. › Chapter 5
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At last the Doctor promiseth, or rather threatens to give ⟨p. 44⟩me a visit: for so he saith, pag. 65. I must come home to Master Bridge, to make him understand the force of my Inference. I had said thus; In like manner the Doctor proves, that power it self is of God, because the Magistrate is called the Minister of God: Slipping from the power it self, to the person designed, for the power it self is not called the Minister of God; Whereupon the Doctor saith, I must come home to Master Bridges, the Major of N••s the Kings Minister, therefore his power is from the King; will Master Bridge reply no? for the power it self is not the Major, or called the Minister of the King.
At last the Doctor promiseth, or rather threatens to give ⟨p. 44⟩me a visit: for so he saith, pag. 65. I must come home to Master Bridge, to make him understand the force of my Inserence. I had said thus; In like manner the Doctor proves, that power it selfe is of God, because the Magistrate is called the Minister of God: Slipping from the power it selfe, to the person designed, for the power it self is not called the Minister of God; Whereupon the Doctor saith, I must come home to Master Bridges, the Major of N••s the Kings Minister, therefore his power is from the King; will Master Bridge reply no? for the power it selfe is not the Major, or called the Minister of the King.
1Thus whilst he comes home to me he comes from his own home and reason; forgetting what he had said before, pag. 60 61. A lawful Prince, though commanding unlawfully, is still still the Minister of God. So then it seems one may be the Minister of God in that which is evil; and 'tis true a penal Minister one may be a man may sin in afflicting another and yet he may be the Minister of God to him that is afflicted, how therefore doth this argue, that because the Magistrate is called the Minister of God, that his authority is lawful: And therefore whereas the Doctor saith the Major of N. is the Kings Minister, therefore his power is from the King; Will Master Bridge say no? Answ. He will say there is not the same reason in regard of God and the King, for a man cannot be the Kings Minister in a bad action but he must receive power from him but he may be Gods Minister, I mean penally in an unlawful action, which God never gave him right or power to do.