A92147:1149
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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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.
Answ. 1. That Dominion is founded upon Grace, as its essentiall Pillar; so as wicked men be no Magistrates, because they are in mortall sin, was falsly imputed to ancient Protestants, the Waldenses, Wickcliff, and Hus, by Papists; and this day by Jesuites, Suarez, Bellarmine, Becan. The P. Prelate will leave them under this Calumny, that he may offend Papists and Iesuites 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 covetousnesse, as Gerson and others did, he belieth the Scripture.
2. It is no error of Gerson, that believers have a spiritual Right to their civill possessions, but by Scripture, 1 Cor. 4. 21. Revel. 21. 7.
2. It is no errour of Gerson, that beleevers have a spirituall Right to their civill possessions, but by Scripture, 1 Cor. 4. 21. Revel. 21. 7.