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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
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.
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.
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 selfe 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 selfe 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 himselfe nothing by proving that Authority or Magistracie 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.
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