A92147:1147
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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Ans. This Calumniator in the next words belieth himself, when he saith, We presuppose, that these with whom we are to enter in Lists, do willingly grant, That Government is not only lawful and just, but necessary both for Church and Common-wealth: then we fancy no such thing as he imputeth to us.
Ans. This Calumniator in the next words belieth himself, when he saith, We presuppose, that these with whom we are to enter in Lists, do willingly grant, That Government is not onely lawfull and just, but necessary both for Church and Common-wealth: then we fancie no such thing as he imputeth to us.
P. Prelate. Some said, that the right of Dominion is founded on grace; whether the Waldenses and Hus, held any such Tenet, I cannot now insist to prove, or disprove. Gerson and others held, that there must be a new Title and Right to what men possess: Too many too confidently hold these, or the like.
P. Prelate. Some said, that the right of Dominion is founded on grace; whether the Waldenses and Hus, held any such Tenet, I cannot now insist to prove, or disprove. Gerson and others held, that there must be a new Title and Right to what men possesse: Too many too confidently hold these, or the like.
Answ. 1. That Dominion is founded upon Grace, as its essential Pillar; so as wicked men be no Magistrates, because they are in mortal sin, was falsely imputed to ancient Protestants, the Waldenses, Wycliffe, and Hus, by Papists; and this day by Jesuits, Suarez, Bellarmine, Becan. The P. Prelate will leave them under this Calumny, that he may offend Papists and Jesuits as little as he can, but he would lay it on us; but if the P. Prelate think, that Dominion is not founded on Grace, de jure, that Rulers should have that spirit that God put on the seventy Elders for their Calling, and that they ought not to be men fearing God, and hating covetousness, as Gerson and others did, he belieth the Scripture.