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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
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The Doctor replies; that though the Senate of Rome were against the Christians of those times; yet if the people have the first right, and all power be from the people, that people must rise up and resist, because the Senate did not discharge the trust▪ and so it will be in this State, if at any time a King that would •ule arbitrarily, should by some means or other, work out of the two Houses •he better affected, and by consent of the major part of them that remain, compass his desires, the people may tell them they discharged not their trust, they •hose them not to betray them, or enslave them; and so might lay hold on this power of resistance for the representative body claims it by them.
The Doctor replyes; that though the Senate of Rome were against the Christians of those times; yet if the people have the first right, and all power bee from the people, that people must rise up and resist, because the Senate did not dis•harge the trust▪ and so it will be in this State, if at any time a King that would •ule arbitrarily, should by some meanes or other, worke out of the two Houses •he better affected, and by consent of the major part of them that remaine, com•asse his desires, the people may tell them they discharged not their trust, they •hose them not to betray them, or inslave them; and so might lay hold on this power of resistance for the representative body claimes it by them.
Ans. Concerning the Senate of Rome, and the people of the Roman Empire, we say that though the Emperor and the Senate had been for the destruction of the Christians, yet if the whole body of the Empire had jointly risen for the Christians, I make no question but that many of those that ied, would so far have resisted that they would have saved their own ves; but the Emperors and Senate being against them, and the body