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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
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Then the Doctor comes to prove this by 3. arguments, That power as distinguished from the qualification thereof, and designation, is of divine institution.
Ans. Wherein he might have saved his labour in those three arguments, for none doth deny it: yet we will examine what he saith in the arguments: 1. he saith, that the Apostle speaks expressly, that the powers are of God, Rom. 13. 1. and the ordinance of God, vers. 2. by which power he understands the power it self of Magistracy as distinguished from the qualifications thereof, or designation of any person thereto.
Ans. Wherein he might have saved his labour in those three arguments, for none doth deny it: yet we will examine what he saith in the arguments: 1. he saith, that the Apostle speakes expresly, that the powers are of God, Rom. 13. 1. and the ordinance of God, vers. 2. by which power he understands the power it selfe of Magistracy as distinguished from the qualifications thereof, or designation of any person thereto.
1. And if so, how is that true which he saith before, Section 2. where he saith, that the higher power in Paul, Rom 13. is all one with the King as supreme, 1 Pet. 2. 12. whereas he confesseth that the government of a King or Prince is the qualification of the power? so doth the Apostle himself, calling it [Greek or Hebrew], an humane constitution.
1. And if so, how is that true which he saith before, Section 2. where he saith, that the higher power in Paul, Rom 13. is all one with the King as supreme,