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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.
Answ. The Parliament hath sounded no Trumpet for War but what the supreme power hath given commandment for. For the• Doctor saith Section 1. page 2. That in the established Laws of the Lan• we have the Princes will and consent given upon good advice, and to obey hi• against the Laws, were to obey him against himself, his sudden will against his deliberate will, so that if there be any established Laws whereby the ⟨p. 15⟩King hath given his former deliberate consent for the blowing of the Trumpet that now sounds, then this objection is but a false alarm.
Answ. The Parliament hath sounded no Trumpet for Warre but what the supreme power hath given commandement for. For the• Doctor saith Section 1. page 2. That in the established Lawes of the Lan• we have the Princes will and consent given upon good advice, and to obey hi• against the Lawes, were to obey him against himselfe, his suddaine will against his deliberate will, so that if there be any established Lawes whereby the ⟨p. 15⟩King hath given his former deliberate consent for the blowing of the Trumpet that now sounds, then this objection is but a false allarum.
Now though I be no Lawyer, and must refer you much to what the Parliament hath said who are the Judges of the Law, yet thus much I can tell you as consonant to right reason: That unless the Parliament have a power to send for delinquents and accused persons to be tried in that highest Court of Justice, I say unless they have such a power they are no Parliament. The King hath often protested to maintain the liberties and privileges of Parliament: Now suppose a man be complained of to the Parliament for some notorious crime, it is granted by all that the Parliament hath a power to send a Serjeant at Arms for him, and if he refuse to come, that Serjeant at Arms hath a power to call in more help; and if the Delinquent shall raise twenty or thirty, or a hundred men to rescue himself, then the Parliament hath power to send down more messengers by force to bring up the Delinquent, and if they may raise a hundred; why may they not upon the like occasion raise a thousand, and so ten thousand? And if the King shall protect these Delinquents, that is but his sudden will, the Doctor saith, his deliberate will in the Law is to be preferred before his sudden will; now this is the known Law of the Kingdom, and the constant practise of all Parliaments that they have a power to send for their Delinquents, and indeed else how can they be a Court of Justice, if they cannot force the accused to appear before them? And therefore according to the Doctors own principles the Kings deliberate will being in his Law, he himself hath sounded this Trumpet, though by his sudden will (as he calls it) he is pleased to sound a retreat. For though the Doctor saith that the Parliament takes up Arms against the King, yet herein he doth but abuse them, mistake the question deceive many.