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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.
Sect. V.
The Doctor comes unto that which he calls our last reason, the safety of the Kingdom, where he saith first, that we have many weapons sharp••d for this resistance at the Philistines forge, our arguments being borrowed from the Roman Schools, as he saith.
THe Doctor comes unto that which he calls our last reason, the safety of the Kingdome, where he saith first, that we have many weapons sharp••d for this resistance at the Philistims forge, our arguments being borrowed from the Roman Schooles, as he saith.
Ans. But there is much difference between us and the Papists in this particular; for, 1. The Papists contend for the lawfulness of deposing Kings, which we do not. 2. The Papists plead for a power to depose a Prince in case that he turn Heretic, which we do not; for we hold that though a Prince may leave and change his religion, the subjects are not thereby excused from their allegiance. 3 The Papists do not only hold •• lawful to depose and thus to depose their Prince, but to kill him also: […], that a private man invested with the Popes authority may do thus: ⟨p. 46⟩