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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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Secondly, whereas the Doctor saith, both here and afterward in this Section; that if upon our grounds the King will not discharge his tru•• that therefore it falls to the representative body of the people to see to i• then the people having this power may also say, if the Members of the tw•• Houses do not discharge their trust committed to them, they do not that which they were chosen and sent for, and then may the multitude by this rule and principle now taught them, take the power to themselves.
Secondly, whereas the Doctor saith, both here and afterward in this Section; that if upon our grounds the King will not discharge his tru•• that therefore it falls to the representative body of the people to see to i• then the people having this power may also say, if the Members of the tw•• Houses doe not discharge their trust committed to them, they doe not that which they were chosen and sent for, and then may the multitude by this rule and principle now taught them, take the power to themselves.
First, I answer, that there is not the same reason why the people should be so ready to think that the Parliament do neglect their trust, being they are very many chosen out of the whole Kingdom for their faithfulness, approved every way for their goodness and wisdom; whereas a Prince may be borne to the Crown, and so by virtue of his inheritance may rule, though he be known to be vicious; as also because it is received by all the Kingdom that we ought to be governed by Laws, and the people all know that the Parliament are better able to judge of the Law then the Prince is; as also because the people do actually elect and trust the Parliament men with the present affairs of the Kingdom. Now though the Prince indeed be trusted by the Commonwealth with their affairs in our forefathers, whereunto the people do now consent, yet there is not that actual election or designation of him unto the present affairs of the Kingdom, as there is of the Parliament men chosen for these particular businesses; as for example, suppose that a people do choose their Minister, trusting him with all the great affairs of their souls, and there doth rise a controversy between neighbours, wherein they choose an arbitrator to umpire the businesses, though these two Parishioners hat have fallen out, have formerly trusted their Minister with all the affairs of conscience, yet they do not so readily stand to his verdict, by reason of the general trust, as to the verdict of those arbitrators whom they have now actually chosen for this business; neither can they in law o reason so easily revoke or renounce the sentence of Arbitrator, who they have chosen to this business, as the sentence of their Minister wh they have trusted in the general: so in this case of ours, though the Kin be entrusted by our forefathers and us with the general affairs of th Kingdom, yet the Parliamentary men are actually elected and designe by the people for the present affairs of the Kingdom; and therefore th people take themselves bound to stand to their arbitrement: neither c