A92147:1046
A treatise of civil policy
A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and privilege, in reference to the supreme prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divinity of St Andrews in Scotland.A treatise of civil policy: being a resolution of forty three questions concerning prerogative, right and priviledge, in reference to the supream prince and the people. / By Samuel Rutherford professor of divintiy of St Andrews in Scotland.
London, : Printed and are to be sold by Simon Miller at the Star in St Pauls Church-yard near the West end., 1657 i.e. 1656
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6. If the communion of Saints be any bound, that England and we have one Lord, one faith, one Baptism, one head and Saviour Jesus Christ, then are we obliged to help our bleeding sister Church, against these same common enemies Papists and Prelates, but the former is undeniably true, for 1. We send help to the Rotchel, if there had not been a secret betraying of our brethren, we send help to the recovery of the Palatinate, and the aide of the confederate ⟨p. 382⟩Princes against Babels strength and power, and that lawfully, but we did it at great leisure and coldly. Q. Elizabeth helped Holland against the King of Spain. And beside the union in Religion. 1. We sail in one ship together, being in one Island, under one King; and now by the mercy of God, have sworn one Covenant, and so must stand or fall together.
6. If the communion of Saints be any bound, that England and we have one Lord, one faith, one Baptisme, one head and Saviour Iesus Christ, then are we obliged to help our bleeding sister Church, against these same common enemies Papists and Prelates, but the former is undenyably true, for 1. We send help to the Rotchel, if there had not been a secret betraying of our brethren, we send help to the recovery of the Palatinate, and the aide of the confederat ⟨p. 382⟩Princes against Babels strength and power, and that lawfully, but we did it at great leisure and coldly. Q. Elizabeth helped Holland against the King of Spain. And beside the union in Religion. 1. We sayle in one ship together, being in one Iland, under one King; and now by the mercy of God, have sworne one Covenant, and so must stand or fall together.
7. We are obliged by the union betwixt the Kingdoms concluded to be by the Convention of the Estates of Scotland, An. 1585. at the desire of the General Assembly, 1583. to join forces together at home, and enter in League with Protestant Princes, and Estates abroad, to maintain the Protestant Religion, against the bloody confederacy of Trent; and accordingly this League between the two Crowns was subscribed at Berwick, An. 1586. and the same renewed, An. 1587, 1588. as also the confession of Faith subscribed, when the Spanish Armada was on our coasts.