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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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Lastly, saith the Doctor, Master Bridges concludes that my proving of the governing power to be of God, but the qualification of it, and designation of the person to be of man, gaineth nothing against resistance, or deposing a Prince that doth not discharge his trust: for still the people may say, we may alter the Government, and depose the person, because hew as of our designing. Doctor Ferne, nothing so for of they resist, they usurp Authority, and invade the power that God hath given ⟨p. 45⟩him, if they depose him, they quite take away that p were which God, and not they placed in him, because he is still the Minister of God.
Lastly, saith the Doctor, Master Bridges concludes that my proving of the governing power to be of God, but the qualification of it, and designation of the person to be of man, gaineth nothing against resistance, or deposing a Prince that doth not discharge his trust: for still the people may say, we may alter the Government, and depose the person, because hew as of our designing. Doctor Ferne, nothing so for of they resist, they usurpe Authority, and invade the power that God hath given ⟨p. 45⟩him, if they depose him, they quite take away that p wer which God, and not they placed in him, because he is still the Minister of God.
1This seems to prove that people cannot depose their Prince or alter the Government that is set up amongst them; But what is this to the reason that he pretends an Answer to? to which was thus: If the Doctor grant that the qualification of the power is from man, and the designation of the person, then though the power it self be confessed of God by the Doctor, yet his adversaries that are for the deposing of Princes, (if any such be) may aswell plead a power to depose the Person, or alter the Government, aswell I say, as if the power it self was appointed, or set up by men. Now the qualification and power of designation is granted by him to be of man: And therefore he helps himself nothing by proving that Authority or Magistracy in the abstract is of God. To take away this, he proves that the people cannot depose their Prince, or alter the Government; I will not say a wild but surely a wide Answer as ever came from a Dr. D. The other part of this Section is against others, who are sufficiently able to plead their own cause against this Dr.