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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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that all the Congregation did eat and drink before the Lord, and they made Solomon the son of David King the second time, and anointed him unto •he Lord to be the chief Governor. Solomon being dead, the second of the Chron. 10. 1. It is said of Rehoboam, that he went to Shechem, where all Israel came to make him King; and in the second of Sam. 16. 18. it is said thus: And Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the King, God save the King: and Absalom said unto Hushai, Is this thy kindness unto thy friend, why wentest thou not with thy friend? And Hushai said unto Absalom again, nay, but whom the Lord and this people ⟨p. 4⟩and all the men of Israel choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide: • that we see that these Monarchs both of the Judges and Kings • Israel were chosen and entrusted▪ by the people, and had their power of governing from them. 3. The Parliament also is immediately trusted b• §3the people, and Common-weal with the safety thereof as well as the King though not to be King, for they are the officers of the Kingdom, and therefore chosen immediately by the people, and not designed by the King: an• this kind of officers was in Davids time also; there were some Officer• then that were the Kings Officers, his Cooks, his Bakers, the steward o• his house, and the like. Others were the officers of the Kingdom called the Elders and heads of the Tribes, which though they were under him yet were they with him trusted in the affairs of the Kingdom, whom therefore he did consult with in the great affairs of the State, 1 Chron. 13. 1• wherefore seeing the King is to look to the safety of the Kingdom, and that because he is trusted therewith by the people, and the Parliament ar• as well trusted by the people with the safety of the land, it is their duty i case of danger to look to it, which they are not able to do, and mak good their trust, unless they have power to take up Arms against an enemy, when the Prince is misled or defective.