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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.
The second example alleged (saith the Doctor) is Davids resisting • Saul, to which he answers, that Davids guard which he had about him was on• ly to secure his person against the cruelty of Saul, who sent to take away his life.
The second example alledged (saith the Doctor) is Davids resisting • Saul, to which he answers, that Davids guard which he had about him was on• ly to secure his person against the cruelty of Saul, who sent to take away his life.
Ans. Therefore according to his own grounds a Parliament may tak• up a guard to secure their persons against the cut-throats that are abo•• a King, and this is more then prayers or tears or mere sufferings which the Doctor only allows in the following part of his discourse.
Ans. Therefore according to his owne grounds a Parliament may tak• up a guard to secure their persons against the cut-throats that are abo•• a King, and this is more then prayers or teares or meere sufferings whic• the Doctor onely allowes in the following part of his discourse.
2. Herein also he gives his cause, for if Davids guard was to secure his person against the cut-throats of Saul if sent to take away his life (as he says) they could not secure David but by fighting against those messengers of the King: and if he grants that messengers sent by the king may be resisted by arms, he grants all that his adversaries contend for.