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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
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He would prove from hence that it is not lawful for any man to resin with a forcible resistance the command of a King though he command what is unlawful, because (says he) that this commandment was given un• the Christians to be obedient unto Roman Emperors whose commands were merely destructive to the Christian Religion, and those powers nothing but subverters of that which was good and just.
He would prove from hence that it is not lawfull for any man to resi• with a forcible resistance the command of a King though he comman• what is unlawfull, because (sayes he) that this commandement was given un• the Christians to be obedient unto Roman Emperours whose commands were meerly destructive to the Christian Religion, and those powers nothing but subverters of that which was good and just.
Ans. That there is no such thing commanded in this Scripture I pro• by these reasons.
1. Because the power that every soul is here commanded to be subject to, and not to resist is that power which is not a terror to go• works but to evil. The 3. verse being made a reason of the 2. the 2. ver• saith, Whosoever resists the power resists the ordinance of God, and they that rest shall receive to themselves judgement; then the reason is given: for Rule• are not a terror to good works, but to evil, ver. 3. and therefore the subjection commanded, and resistance forbidden, is not in things that are u lawful, and contrary to the Law of God. 2. The power that we a commanded to be subject to, and not to resist is the ordinance of God; a the Minister thereof is the ordinance of God to us for good, ver. 4. says the Apostle, speaking of the Ruler that we are to obey, he is the Minister of God to us for good: but when he commands a thing unlawful, a contrary to the law of God, he is not the Minister of God to us for go therefore in this Scripture there is no such thing commanded us to