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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.
3. Though a Prince should hold his right by conquest as the next right, yet if he hold it also by derivation from the people as the remote right, and the last be the more natural and just way, then arguments ⟨p. 43⟩grounded on that remote right may be more valid, then those that are grounded on the next right, but thus it is with our Prince who although he doth succeed the conqueror, yet doth also take in the voluntary and free consent of the Common-weal unto his Crown, which a mere conqueror doth not, but rules without the consent and against the good liking of the people.
3. Though a Prince should hold his right by conquest as the next right, yet if he hold it also by derivation from the people as the remote right, and the last be the more naturall and just way, then arguments ⟨p. 43⟩grounded on that remote right may be more valid, then those that are grounded on the next right, but thus it is with our Prince who although he doth succeed the conquerour, yet doth also take in the voluntary and free consent of the Common-weale unto his Crowne, which a meer conquerour doth not, but rules without the consent and against the good liking of the people.
Then the Dr. saith, We tell them the Roman Emperors were not to be resisted; they reply that they were absolute Monarchs, was it any other way then by force and arms, the way that the Saxons, Danes and Normans made themselves masters of this people. Ans. Now in these words we see the Drs. mind plainly that he contends for an arbitrary government; for he saith page 11. that the Emperors did rule absolutely and arbitrarily, and here he saith how came they of Subjects to be absolute Monarchs, was it any other ways then by force and arms the way that the Saxons, Danes and Normans made themselves masters of this people, in whose right and lines he saith before, the Crown descended upon our King. What can be more plain then this for an arbitrary government? It seems the Dr. was conscious to himself that herein he had discovered himself, and therefore he says this, I speak not as if the Kings of this land might rule as Conquerors, but that will not heal it.