A77374:215
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. 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.
Ans. This is a very bold assertion and scandalous to charge a Parliament in the face of the world with hypocrisie: but how doth this agree to the Drs. owne principles, who doth declaime against me• for their uncharitablenesse, in not beleeving the Kings Protestations? Is this then no uncharitablenesse in him, charging the Houses with pretending one thing, and intending another? Is not conscience a• well bound to be charitable, and to beleeve 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 maintaine the government of the Church as by Law established, yet h is no more bound by vertue of that oath to maintaine that government then any other Law of the Kingdom; and as for other Laws, i the King and Parliament thinke fit to repeale them, they may, ye without breach of the Kings oath: so in this also.