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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.
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, 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 himselfe, calling it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, an humane constitution.
2. If by power here, Rom. 13. be understood Magistracy, and authority it self in the abstract, then when we are commanded to submit thereunto, the meaning cannot be that the Christians in those times, must submit to the unlawful commands of the Emperor, (as the Doctor would have it before) seeing the way of governing by an Emperor or Prince, is but the qualification of the power; surely if by power we are now to understand Magistracy and Authority it self in the abstract, then all that is commanded in the 13. Rom. to submit thereunto, is to acknowledge a Magistracy, & then all the Doctors arguments, and his strength whereby he would prove that we may not make forcible resistance to unlawful commands from Rom. 13. falls to the ground.
2. If by power here, Rom. 13. be understood Magistracie, and authority it selfe in the abstract, then when we are commanded to submit thereunto, the meaning cannot be that the Christians in those times, must submit to the unlawfull commands of the Emperour, (as the Doctor would have it before) seeing the way of governing by an Emperour or Prince, is but the qualification of the power; surely if by power we are now to understand Magistracie and Authority it selfe in the abstract, then all that is commanded in the 13. Rom. to submit thereunto, is to acknowledge a Magistracie, & then all the Doctors arguments, and his strength whereby he would prove that we may not make forcible resistance to unlawfull commands from