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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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In examining the causes of this war and resistance, the Dr. saith▪ To speak truth, Religion and liberties can be no other then the pretences of this war, the King having fortified them with so many acts of his grace passed this Parliament, that they cannot be in that danger that is pretende• for the raising of this war: It must be something that his Majesty indeed doth deny, for which the contention is raised; which we shall find to be his power of arms, his power of denying in Parliament the government of the Church, and the revenue of it, which he is bound by oath to maintain, as by law they are established.
In examining the causes of this war and resistance, the Dr. saith▪ To speake truth, Religion and liberties can be no other then the pretences of this war, the King having fortified them with so many acts of his grace passed this Parliament, that they cannot be in that danger that is pretende• for the raising of this war: It must be something that his Majesty indeed doth deny, for which the contention is raised; which we shall finde to be his power of armes, his power of denying in Parliament the government of the Church, and the revenue of it, which he is bound by oath to maintaine, as by law they are established.
Ans. This is a very bold assertion and scandalous to charge a Parliament in the face of the world with hypocrisy: but how doth this agree to the Drs. own principles, who doth declaim against me• for their uncharitableness, in not believing the Kings Protestations? Is this then no uncharitableness in him, charging the Houses with pretending one thing, and intending another? Is not conscience a• well bound to be charitable, and to believe the Protestations of th• Parliament, as those papers that come out in the name of the King? and hath the Parliament and Houses carried themselves so unworthily and basely, that under pretence of Religion, we should think they gape after the revenues of the Church? O where is this man charity? And if the King be bound by oath (as the Dr. saith) to maintain the government of the Church as by Law established, yet h is no more bound by virtue of that oath to maintain that government then any other Law of the Kingdom; and as for other Laws, i the King and Parliament think fit to repeal them, they may, ye without breach of the Kings oath: so in this also.