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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 comes to the examination of those fears and jealousies which have possessed the people, which he saith are raised on these grounds, report of foreign powers to be brought in, the Queens religion, the resort of Papists to his Majesty, his intercepting of means sent for the relief of Ireland: To which he answers, first, That the report of foreign invasions given out to keep the people in a muse, the easier to draw them into a posture of defence are discovered in time to have been vain: But saith he, If there be now any foreign aid coming towards the King (as all Christian Kings cannot but think ⟨p. 60⟩themselves concerned in this cause) it will be just for him to use them against subjects now in arms.
Then the Doctor comes to the examination of those fears and jealousies which have possessed the people, which hee saith are raised on these grounds, report of forraine powers to be brought in, the Queens religion, the resort of Papists to his Majesty, his intercepting of meanes sent for the reliefe of Ireland: To which he answers, first, That the report of forraine invasions given out to keepe the people in a muse, the easier to draw them into a posture of defence are discovered in time to have been vain: But saith he, If there be now any foraigne aid comming towards the King (as all Christian Kings cannot but thinke ⟨p. 60⟩themselves concerned in this cause) it will be just for him to use them against subjects now in armes.
Answ. To which I answer, That it doth not appear that our fears were vain, because foreign invasion hath been prevented; for we may rather think that therefore we have not been invaded by foreigners, because the Parliament hath been vigilant both by sea and land to prevent them. But who doth not see that so far as lies in the Doctor, he doth invite foreign forces into the land, and so stir up other Princes for to send them, and our King for to use them? Whether this be agreeable to an English Divine, or an English Subject, I leave to be judged.