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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.
4. From this covenant and capitulation we say, thereby it appeare• that the people do commit a trust to the King: which,
4. From this covenant and capitulation we say, thereby it appeare• that the people doe commit a trust to the King: which,
5. If he doth neglect, as he doth not always forfeit his power, so neither are they to forfeit their right of looking to themselves for the present And therefore all that the Doctor says, that we urge the covenant a•• capitulation so much as if our King were a conditional King, and that which he brings to prove that he is a King before Coronation is needlessly urged against us: for we say and speak plainly, that though the right that our King hath to the Crown is firstly by derivation of power from the people, yet he hath his right by inheritance, and is not such an elective King as is chosen for a time, and his life if he rule well: and so his right to end in himself, but to continue upon his posterity: for the people do derive their power two ways, either so as to choose a ma• into office for his life only in case he rule well, and so our Kings Predecessors were not brought to the Crown; or so as to commit the trus• of the State unto him, to descend upon his posterity, which when his posterity comes to, hath both a right of election and inheritance; it being the right of inheritance as it is left by their fore-fathers, and the right o• election in regard of its principle from whence it flowed: and thus w• do estate our King in his Throne, hereby establishing him more sur• therein, and then the opposite opinion of conquest doth.