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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.
For the matter of Keilah, the Doctor answers our supposition (as he calls it) with his own saying: but whether David would have defended Keilah against Saul, I leave to the conscience of the Reader, considering that this only is made the reason of his removing from Keilah, because the men of Keilah would not be faithful unto him, for he did not enquire of the Lord whether it were lawful for him to abide in Keilah, but having enquired whether Saul would come down against him, and whether Keilah would deliver him up into Sauls hand; he removed from Keilah because the Lord answered him that they would deliver him up, not because it was unlawful for him to keep the City, but because the City would be false to him.
For the matter of Keilah, the Doctor answers our supposition (as he cals it) with his own saying: but whether David would have defended Keilah against Saul, I leave to the conscience of the Reader, considering that this only is made the reason of his removing from Keilah, because the men of Keilah would not be faithfull unto him, for he did not enquire of the Lord whether it were lawfull for him to abide in Keilah, but having enquired whether Saul would come downe against him, and whether Keilah would deliver him up into Sauls hand; he removed from Keilah because the Lord answered him that they would deliver him up, not because it was unlawfull for him to keepe the City, but because the City would be false to him.
And whereas the Doctor saith that in all this the example of David was extraordinary, for he was anointed and designed by the Lord to succeed Saul.
Ans. I answer, though David was Gods Anointed, yet he was Sauls subject, and though God did extraordinarily protect David, yet his extraordinary ⟨p. 12⟩protection doth not argue that his practice was unlawful but doth rather argue it to be more lawful and commendable: for Go will not give extraordinary protections to unlawful actions, and if Davids demeanour herein was extraordinary, then he had an extraordinary command for what he did. For it is not lawful for a man to step fro Gods ordinary way, but by some special commandment from God, and if he had such a command then how is that true which the Doctor saith afterward, that there is no command in Scripture for such a practice o kind of resistance as this.