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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.
We must consider that they which plead for resistance in such a case as is supposed, do grant that it must be concluded upon, Omnibus ordinibus regni consentientibus, that is, with the general and unanimous consent of the two houses.
We must consider that they which plead for resistance in such a case as is supposed, doe grant that it must be concluded upon, Omnibus ordinibus regni consentientibus, that is, with the generall and unanimous consent of the two houses.
Ans. 1. First these words are ill translated; for omnes ordines regni may consentire, and yet there may not be an unanimous and general consent of the Members of the two houses as of one man.
Ans. 1. First these words are ill translated; for omnes ordines regni may consentire, and yet there may not be an unanimous and generall consent of the Members of the two houses as of one man.
2. If so that the Doctor grant this to be our Sentence, why then doth he object against us, that the Christians in the primitive times did not take up arms for the defence of themselves against the Emperors, seeing they had not the consent of all the orders of the Empire, and therefore their case is nothing to ours, as he pretends afterward. But if they had the whole Senate of Rome with them, the representative body of the Empire, then their case had been more like unto ours; and then no question but they would have taken up arms for the defence of themselves.
2. If so that the Doctor grant this to be our Sentence, why then doth he object against us, that the Christians in the primitive times did not take up armes for the defence of themselves against the Emperors, seeing they had not the consent of all the orders of the Empire, and therefore their case is nothing to ours, as hee pretends afterward. But if they had the whole Senate of Rome with them, the representative body of the Empire, then their case had beene more like unto ours; and then no question but they would have taken up armes for the defence of themselves.