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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 Dr. saith, Although it were as they would have it, that they give the power, and God approves, yet because the Lords hand also and his oil is upon the person elected to the Crown, and then he is the Lords Anointed, and the Minister of God, those hands of the people which were used in lifting him up to the Crown, may not again be lifted up against him, either to take the Crown from his head, or the sword out of his hand.
Then the Dr. saith, Although it were as they would have it, that they give the power, and God approves, yet because the Lords hand also and his oyle is upon the person elected to the Crowne, and then he is the Lords Anointed, and the Minister of God, those hands of the people which were used in lifting him up to the Crown, may not againe be lifted up against him, either to take the Crowne from his head, or the sword out of his hand.
Ans. •f this be true, then Princes that are merely elective and not hereditary, and whose coming to the Crown is merely pactional, cannot be deposed by the people, for they are the Lords Anointed, and the Ministers of God; but this is contrary to the Doctor himself, who in this same Section saith thus, Although such arguments (speaking of the forfeiture of the Princes power in the next line before) may seem to have some force in States merely elective, and pactional, yet can it never be made to appear by any indifferent understanding, that the like must obtain in this Kingdom. And to this purpose saith the Dr. Phil. Paraeus excuseth what his father had written ⟨p. 42⟩on Romans 13. in the point of resistance: that it was to be understood of elective and pactional government, and when the government is elective and pactional, are not the Princes the Ministers, and the Lords Anointed?
Ans. •f this be true, then Princes that are meerly elective and not hereditary, and whose comming to the Crowne is meerly pactionall, cannot be deposed by the people, for they are the Lords Anointed, and the Ministers of God; but this is contrary to the Doctor himselfe, who in this same Section saith thus, Although such arguments (speaking of the forfeiture of the Princes power in the next line before) may seeme to have some force in States meerly elective, and pactionall, yet can it never be made to appeare by any indifferent understanding, that the like must obtaine in this Kingdome. And to this purpose saith the Dr. Phil. Paraeus exuseth what his father had written