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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.
Section I.
The Doctor saith, That in the proposition or principle, by the word resistance is meant not a denying of obedience to the Princes command, but a rising in arms a forcible resistance: this though clear in the question, yet I thought good to insinuate to take off that false imputation laid upon the Divines ⟨p. 6⟩of this Kingdom, and upon all those that appear for the King in this cause.1
THe Doctor saith, That in the proposition or principle, by the word resistance is meant not a denying of obedience to the Princes command, but a rising in armes a forcible resistance: this though cleare in the question, yet I thought good to insinuate to take off that false imputation laid upon the Divines ⟨p. 6⟩of this Kingdom, and upon all those that appear for the King in this cause.1
- 1Gubernat• res ergo in •is rebus quae cum decalog• & justis legibus pugnant nihil juris aut immunitatis habent p•ae caeteris hominibus privatis; & perpretrantes id quod malum est, Coguntur tam metuere ordinationem Dei gladium prestante ad vindictam nocentium quam alii homines privati nam Paulus Ro. 13. docet Deum ordi•asse & instituisse potestatem illam gladio defendendi bonum▪ & puniendi malum, & praecipit ut omnis anima (& sic ipsi guber nores tali Dei ordinationi fit subjecta, hoc est obligat ad sacienm bonum si velit defendi ist a. Dei ordinatione & non ob sua facinoa impia puniri. Magdeburgensis cent. 1 l. 20. cap. 4. page 457. Quod a tem ad nos proprie pertiner possum enumerare duodecim aut etiam amplius reges qui ob scelera & flagitia aut in perpetuum carcetem sunt damnati, aut exilio vel morte voluntaria justas scelerū poenas fugerant nos autemid contendimus populum a quo reges nostri habent quicquid juris sibi vindicant regibus esa potentiorē: Jusque idem in cos habere multitudinem quod illi in singulos a multitudine habent, B de Gub: Regni apud Scoos.