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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…
A brief answer to Doctor Ferns book tending to resolve conscience about the subjects taking up of arms / by Jer. Burroughs.A briefe answer to Doctor Fernes booke tending to resolve conscience about the subjects taking up of arms / by Jer. Burroughes.
London? : s.n., 1643?
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.
2. He takes for granted the King is the higher power. Here observe his mistake. Let it be granted that the King hath the highest power, yet what propriety of speech is it to say that he is the highest power? It is proper to God to say that he is Power in the abstract.
Well, The King hath the highest power, and we must be subject to this power of his, and not resist it. Who denies all this? When all this is granted, the D. hath got nothing at all; for if we resist not that power which Law hath given him, we do not resist the higher power, although we do not do nor suffer what he would have us to do or suffer.
Well, The King hath the highest power, and we must be subject to this power of his, and not resist it. Who denies all this? When all this is granted, the D. hath got nothing at all; for if we resist not that power which Law hath given him, we do not resist the higher power, although we do not do nor suffer what hee would have us to do or suffer.
Then he reasons from the person, whosoever, every soul. There was then says he, the Senate, &c.
Then he reasons from the person, whosoever, every soule. There was then sayes he, the Senate, &c.