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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, we will clear up these two particulars, whether the power be so originally, & chiefly from the people as they would have it; Then whether they may upon just causes re-assume that power: and saith, first of the original of power which they would have to be so from the people, as that it shall be from God only by a permissive approbation.
Then the Doctor saith, we will cleare up these two particulars, whether the power be so originally, & chiefly from the people as they would have it; Then whether they may upon just causes re-assume that power: and saith, first of the originall of power which they would have to be so from the people, as that it shall bee from God only by a permissive approbation.
Ans. If the Doctor takes Power for Magistracy it self, and sufficiency of authority to command or coerce in the governing of a people abstractively considered, as distinguished from the qualification of that power, according to the divers ways of executing it in several forms of government, and the designation thereof unto some person, then I do not ⟨p. 22⟩believe there is any man in the Parliament (whom the Doctor especially disputes against) or of those who write for them, that hold that the power is from the people, and by permission and approbation only of God; neither can they: for in that they contend so much for the Parliament, it argues they are of opinion that authority and power in the abstract is from God himself: and for the designation of a person, or qualification of the power according to several forms of government; the Dr. himself grants it in this Section to be the invention of man, and by Gods permissive approbation.
Ans. If the Doctor takes Power for Magistracie it self, and sufficiencie of authority to command or coerce in the governing of a people abstractively considered, as distinguished from the qualification of that power, according to the divers waies of executing it in severall formes of government, and the designation thereof unto some person, then I do not ⟨p. 22⟩