A77374:182
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.
Ans. First, it was always so, that the Parliament was made distinct from the King, in ordinary speech saying, The King and his Parliament: when the Parliament is mentioned alone, it may include the King; but when the King and Parliament are mentioned together, the speech can intend no more then the two Houses. As when the body is mentioned alone, it includes the head and the members; ⟨p. 50⟩but when the head and the body are mentioned together, then the body doth not include the head.
Ans. First, it was alwayes so, that the Parliament was made distinct from the King, in ordinary speech saying, The King and his Parliament: when the Parliament is mentioned alone, it may include the King; but when the King and Parliament are mentioned together, the speech can intend no more then the two Houses. As when the body is mentioned alone, it includes the head and the members; ⟨p. 50⟩but when the head and the body are mentioned together, then the body doth not include the head.
Secondly, that the Doctor saith, this trust of the three States is di• solved, I conceive it is a scandalous charge, and so I leave that t• others.
Then the Doctor saith, If it be replied, as it is, for the reasonableness of this means of safety through that power of resistance, and that many s•• more then one, and more safety in the judgement of many then of one, I answer (saith the Doctor) true: but 1. Conscience might here demand for its satisfaction, why should one hundred in the House of Commons see more then thr hundred, or twenty in the Lords House more then sixty that are of different judgement, and withdrawn?