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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 6AN INTRODVCTION TO THE READER. › Chapter 6
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.
An. Who are most like to the Papists you, or we, I refer you to all that knows us. See the Canterburian self-Conviction. And if we may not gather strength of reason from Popish Authors to dispute against them; why do either you or we read them. Reason is good where ever we find it; neither would Abraham refuse the use of the Well because Ahimilechs men had used it, no more will we refuse good reason, because the Papists have used it; they using it rather from us, and not we from them, and yet in this matter (as I have showed) we do differ much from them.
An. Who are most like to the Papists you, or wee, I referre you to all that knowes us. See the Canterburian self-Conviction. And if we may not gather strength of reason from Popish Authors to dispute against them; why do either you or we reade them. Reason is good where ever we finde it; neither would Abraham refuse the use of the Well because Ahimilechs men had used it, no more will we refuse good reason, because the Papists have used it; they using it rather from us, and not we from them, and yet in this matter (as I have shewed) we doe differ much from them.
But you prove a Power in the Body politic, saith the Doctor, to disburden it self (at the Church hath) of evil Members, as Papists do.
But you prove a Power in the Body politick, saith the Doctor, to disburthen it selfe (at the Church hath) of evill Members, as Papists doe.
An. But not as the Papists: for we only press a necessity of Power in the body, to defend and save it self from the injury of Princes; they plead for a power in the Church, (& who that Church is you know) to depose Princes; but then saith the Drs. hath this Church a power of excommunication still; so it should be indeed, but since the Act which took away the High Commission; and (as the party you plead for would have it interpreted) all Ecclesiastical Censure too, where doth the exercise of that power rest, upon, whom now is the Argument turned? page 73.