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The wounded conscience cured, the weak one strengthened, [sic] and the doubting satisfied By…The vvounded conscience cured, the weak one strengthned, [sic] and the doubting satisfied By…
The wounded conscience cured, the weak one strengthened, [sic] and the doubting satisfied By way of answer to Doctor Fearne. Where the main point is rightly stated, and objections throughly answered for the good of those who are willing not to be deceived. By William Bridge, preacher of Gods Word. It is ordered this 30. day of January, 1642. by the committee of the House of Commons in Parliament, concerning printing, that this answer to Dr. Fearne's book be printed. John White. The second edition, corrected and amended. Whereunto are added three sermons of the same author; 1. Of courage, preached to the volunteers. 2. Of stoppage in Gods mercies to England, with their [sic] remedies. 3. A preparation for suffering in these plundering times.The vvounded conscience cured, the weak one strengthned, [sic] and the doubting satisfied By way of answer to Doctor Fearne. Where the main point is rightly stated, and objections throughly answered for the good of those who are willing not to be deceived. By William Bridge, preacher of Gods Word. It is ordered this 30. day of January, 1642. by the committee of the House of Commons in Parliament, concerning printing, that this answer to Dr. Fearnes book be printed. John White. The second edition, correced and amended. Whereunto are added three sermons of the same author; 1. Of courage, preached to the voluntiers. 2. Of stoppage in Gods mercies to England, with their [sic] remedies. 3. A preparation for suffering in these plundering times.
London: printed for Benjamin Allen, 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.
Then the Doctor saith secondly: In this Text of the Apostle it is said, All persons under the higher powers, are expressly forbidden to resist: for whosoever in the second verse, must be as large as the every soul in the first.
Then the Doctor saith secondly: In this Text of the Apostle it is said, All persons under the higher powers, are expresly forbidden to resist: for whosoever in the second verse, must be as large as the every soule in the first.
Ans. That which the Doctor aims at in these words, is to make the whole Parliament subject unto the King. And who denies them to be the Kings subjects? and that as men, and Englishmen, they should not be subject unto the King? But if he means, that as a Parliament, they should be subject to enact and do what ever he commandeth, then how is that true which he saith in the 25. 26. pag. That there is such an excellent temper of the three States in Parliament, there being a power of denying in each of them: for what might follow if the King and Lords without the Commons, or these and the Lords without the King, might determine, &c. Or if he mean, that as a Parliament jointly considered, they are to submit passively unto the unlawful commands of the King, and that passive obedience is commanded only here in this 13. Ro. then this is so to straiten the Text, as never any yet hath straitened it: neither indeed can any conscience think, that when the Apostle commands us to be subject unto the higher powers, his meaning is only by way of suffering in his unlawful commands, and not by way of ⟨p. 19⟩obedience in his lawful commands.
Ans. That which the Doctor aimes at in these words, is to make the whole Parliament subject unto the King. And who denyes them to bee the Kings subjects? and that as men, and Englishmen, they should not be subject unto the King? But if he meanes, that as a Parliament, they should be subject to enact and doe what ever he commandeth, then how is that true which he saith in the 25. 26. pag. That there is such an excellent temper of the three States in Parliament, there being a power of denying in each of them: for what might follow if the King and Lords without the Commons, or these and the Lords without the King, might determine, &c. Or if he meane, that as a Parliament jointly considered, they are to submit passively unto the unlawfull commands of the King, and that passive obedience is commanded only here in this 13. Ro. then this is so to straiten the Text, as never any yet hath straitned it: neither indeed can any conscience thinke, that when the Apostle commands us to be subject unto the higher powers, his meaning is only by way of suffering in his unlawfull commands, and not by way of