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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.
2. There is a difference between disposing of things by way of donation or sale, and disposing things by way of trust: true; those things which we dispose of by way of donation or sale are not afterward in our power to recall, as they were before the donation or sale; as if a man give his child land, or sell land to his neighbour, it is not in the power of the father or neighbour to recall or dispose of the land, as before the donation or sale: But if a thing be disposed of by way of trust, then if the fiduciary or trusted shall not discharge his trust, it is in the power (at least of the trusting) to look to the matter himself; as in case that a Steward be •usted with a mans house; and thus when any government is set up in a land by a people, they trust the governor, they do not give away their liberties or rights, but trust them in the hand of the governor, who if abused that he do not perform his Stewardly trust as he should, the people or representative body as an act of self preservation (I do not say, as an act of jurisdiction) are to look to it. Neither herein do they so reassume their power as to take away any thing which they gave to the King, but so as to actuate that power which they always had left in themselves, (as the power of self-preservation.)
2. There is a difference between disposing of things by way of donation or sale, and disposing things by way of trust: true; those things which we dispose of by way of donation or sale are not afterward in our power to recall, as they were before the donation or sale; as if a man give his childe land, or sell land to his neighbour, it is not in the power of the father or neighbour to recall or dispose of the land, as before the donation or sale: But if a thing be disposed of by way of trust, then if the fiduciary or trusted shall not discharge his trust, it is in the power (at least of the trusting) to looke to the matter himselfe; as in case that a Steward bee •usted with a mans house; and thus when any government is set up in a land by a people, they trust the governour, they doe not give away their liberties or rights, but trust them in the hand of the governour, who if abused that he doe not performe his Stewardly trust as he should, the people or representative body as an act of selfe preservation (I doe not say, as an act of jurisdiction) are to looketo it. Neither herein doe they so reassume their power as to take away any thing which they gave to the King, but so as to actuate that power which they alwaies had left in themselves, (as the power of selfe-preservation.)