A Dispute for the just PREROGATIVE of KING and PEOPLE.
Containing the Reasons and Causes of the most necessary Defensive Wars of the Kingdom of SCOTLAND, and of their Expedition for the ayd and help of their dear Brethren of ENGLAND.
In which their Innocency is asserted, and a full ANSWER is given to a Seditious Pamphlet, Intituled, Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas, or The Sacred and Royall Prerogative of Christian Kings; Under the Name of J. A.
But penned by Jo: Maxwell the Excommunicate P. Prelat.
With a Scripturall Confutation of the ruinous Grounds of W. Barclay, H. Grotius, H. Arnisaeus, Ant. de Domi. P. Bishop of Spalato, and of other late Anti-Magistratical Royalists; as, The Author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the Doctors of Aberdeen, &c.
In XLIV. QUESTIONS.
Published by Authority.
1 SAM. 12.25.But if you shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your King.
London: Printed for Iohn Field, and are to be sold at his house upon Addle-hill, neer Baynards-Castle. Octob. 7. 1644.
2. Their apology for the said Government, their Answers to thirty and two Questions are considered.
3. A Treatise for a Church Covenant is discussed.
4. The arguments of Mr. Robinson in his justification of separation are discovered.
5. His Treatise, called, The peoples Plea for the exercise of prophecy, is tryed.
6. Diverse late arguments against presbyteriall government, and the power of synods are discussed, the power of the Prince in matters ecclesiastical modestly considered, & divers incident controversies resolved.
By SAMUEL RUTHERFURD Professor of Divinity at Saint Andrewes.
CANT. 6. 10. Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, faire as the Moone, cleare as the Sun, and terrible as an Army with Banners? 〈non-Latin alphabet〉
LONDON, Printed by E. Griffin, for Richard Whittaker, and Andrew Crook and are to be sold at their Shops in Pauls Church-Yard, 1644.
Title page of The due right of presbyteries, or, A peaceable plea for the government of the…, London, 1644
for Christopher Meredith at the Crane in Pauls Church yard.
MDCXLVI.
THE DIVINE RIGHT OF Church-Government AND Excommunication: OR A peaceable DISPUTE for the perfection of the holy Scripture in point of Ceremonies and Church-Government; IN WHICH The removal of the Service-book is justifi'd, The six Books of Tho: Erastus against Excommunication are briefly examin'd; with a Vindication of that eminent Divine Theod: Beza against the Aspersions of Erastus, The Arguments of Mr. William Pryn, Rich: Hooker, Dr. Morton, Dr. Jackson, Dr. John Forbes, and The Doctors of Aberdeen; Touching Will-worship, Ceremonies, Imagery, Idolatry, Things Indifferent, An Ambulatory Government; The due and just Power of the Magistrate in matters of Religion, and The Arguments of Mr. Pryn, in so far as they side with Erastus, are modestly discussed.To which is added, A brief Tractate of SCANDAL; with an Answer to the new Doctrine of the Doctors of Aberdeen, touching Scandal.By SAMUEL RUTHERFURD, Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts,Zach. 4. 6.Veritas claudi & ligari potest, vinci non potest. Hieronymus comment. ad Ierem. in Prefati. ad Eusebium.Occultari ad tempus potest veritas, vinci non potest, florere potest ad tempus iniquitas, per manere non potest.Augustinus ad Psal. 61.Published by AUTHORITYLondon▪ Printed by JOHN FIELD for Christopher Meredith at the Crane in Pauls Church yard. MDCXLVI.
Title page of The divine right of church-government and excommunication, London, 1646
LONDON, Printed by T. C. for Andrew Crook, and are to be sold by James Davies at the gilded Acorn neer the little North door in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1659.
Title page of Influences of the life of grace, London, 1659
