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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
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.
Thirdly, from the fundamental Laws of the Kingdom: It is according ⟨p. 3⟩§3to the fundamental Laws of the Kingdom (yea written and not unseen Laws) That the Parliament are trusted by the Common-weal with the welfare and security thereof; whence I do reason thus: If it be the duty of the King to look to the safety of the Kingdom, and that because he is trusted therewith by the Common-weal; then if the Parliament be immediately trusted by the Common-weal with the safety thereof as well as the King, though not so much, then are they to look to it, and to use all means for the preservation thereof as well as the King: But so it is that the Prince is bound to look to the safety and welfare of the Kingdom as is agreed by all; and secondly, therefore he is bound to it because he receiveth this power original (I speak not in opposition §2•o God) but I say originally from the people themselves, as appears by the government of the Judges and Kings of Israel, which government, this Doctor saith, was Monarchical, the best plot-form for England: For Judges 8. 22. The men of Israel come unto Gideon to make him their King, and Judges the 9. 6. They gathered together and made Abimeleck their King, and Judges 11. 8, 9, 10, 11. The people covenanted with Jephthah and made him their King: and as for Saul, (though he was designed by God to the Kingdom) yet the people themselves chose the kind of their government first, when they said, Give us a King to rule over us after the manner of the Nations: After that God had anointed Saul, it is said, 1 Sam. 11. 15. And all the people went to Gilgall, and there they made Saul King before the Lord in Gigall: and as for David, though he was anointed King by Samuel, yet we find that he continued a Subject unto Saul after that; and the 2. of Sam. 2. He came unto Hebron, and there the men of Judah were, and there they anointed David King over the house of Judah, v. 4. After that he was thus anointed by Judah to be King over them, yet he did not rule over Israel, till the other tribes also went out and made him King over them, 1 Cron. 12. 38. It is said that all these men of war came with a perfect heart to Hebron to make David King over all Israel, & as for Solomon (though he was designed by God to the Kingdom, yet) it is said of him also,