A brief answer to Doctor Ferns book tending to resolve conscience about the subjects…A briefe answer to Doctor Fernes booke tending to resolve conscience about the subjects…

Still we say power should not be resisted, and where it is resisted sinfully,¹ yea where men in power are resisted, any way, there are like to follow sad consequences of affliction. But what is all this for the satisfaction to conscience about the Lawfulness or unlawfulness of resisting men that have power in any case?

Still we say power should not be resisted, and where it is resisted sinfully,¹ yea where men in power are resisted, any way, there are like to follow sad consequences of affliction. But what is all this for the satisfaction to conscience about the Lawfulnesse or unlawfulnesse of resisting men that have power in any case?

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Then he comes to the oath of Supremacy and the Protestation.

The Answer to this depends upon what hath been said,¹ we swear only to the Legal power, we protest no further then the maintenance of that.

The Answer to this depends upon what hath been said,¹ we swear onely to the Legall power, we protest no further then the maintenance of that.

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