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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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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Commons see more then thr•• hundred, or twenty in the Lords House more then sixty that are of different judgement, and withdrawn?
Then the Doctor saith, If it be replyed, as it is, for the reasonableness• of this meanes 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 answe• (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 differen• judgement, and withdrawne?
Ans. I answer, if there be three hundred of the House of Common withdrawn, and but an hundred left; and sixty of the Lords House withdrawn unto twenty, if indeed there be so many gone away, wh• did they not come all this while and carry things by a vote, and th• controversy had been now at an end? Then could it never have bee• said to the people, that the Parliament are against the King, the• might the three States have all joined together, and there had been n• further question.