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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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Ans. But how come we to this discourse, to compare Monarch and Aristocracy? and to say that Monarchy is better government th• Aristocracy? Doth it follow from the word True, which the Dr. ha• said to that proposition, many see more then one, and more safety […] ⟨p. 51⟩the judgement of many then of one. But seeing he is pleased to say, •he government which God made choice of to set up among his people, was Monarchical still, first in Moses, then in the Judges, then in the Kings, let us now diligently observe, that Monarchical government which God made choice of. If Moses, the Judges, and Kings, were are all Monarchs, and Monarchy the best government, Then
Ans. But how come we to this discourse, to compare Monarc• and Aristocracy? and to say that Monarchy is better government th• Aristocracy? Doth it follow from the word True, which the Dr. ha• said to that proposition, many see more then one, and more safety 〈…〉 ⟨p. 51⟩the judgement of many then of one. But seeing he is pleased to say, •he government which God made choice of to set up among his people, was Monarchicall still, first in Moses, then in the Judges, then in the Kings, let us now diligently observe, that Monarchicall government which God made choice of. If Moses, the Judges, and Kings, were are all Monarchs, and Monarchy the best government, Then
1. The best government is such, where the people have the free choice of their Governor: for so they had in the time of the Judges, Chap. 11. 5. And it was so, when the children of Ammon mae war against Israel, the Elders of Israel went to fetch Jephthah out of the Land of Tob, and hey said unto Jephthah, Come and be our Captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon. And Jephthah said unto the Elders of Gilead, If bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and the Lord eliver them before me, shall I be your head? And the Elders of Gilead said into Jephthah, The Lord be witness betwixt us, if we do not so according o thy word. Then Jephthah went with the Elders of Gilead, and the people ad him Head and Captain over them, v. 11. Thus we see that that government which the Doctor calls the best, and set up by God, is such, when the people have the choice of their King, and the derivation of is power is from them; as I have proved at large in the Preface, to ave been in the Judges and Kings of Israel.