A92147:1153
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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2. The Presbyterians must be Popes, because they subject Kings to the Gospel, and Christs Sceptre in Church Censures, and think Christian Kings may be rebuked for blasphemy, blood-shed, ⟨p. 412⟩&c. Whereas Prelates, in ordine ad diabolica, murther souls of Kings. 2. Prelates do King Princes. An P. Arch-Prelate, when1 our King was crowned, put the Crown on King Charles Head, the Sword and Sceptre in his hand, anointed him in his hands, Crown, shoulders, arms, with sacred Oil: The King must kiss the Archbishop, and Bishops; is not this to King Princes, in ordine ad spiritualia: And these that Kingeth may unking, and judge what relation the P. Arch-Bishop Spotwood had, when he proffered to the King, the Oath that the Popish Kings sweareth to maintain, the professed Religion (not one word of the true Protestant Religion) and will carefully root out all Heretics, and enemies (that is Protestants as they expone it,) to the true Worship of God, that shall be convicted by the true Church of God of the foresaid crimes. And when the Prelates professed, they held not their Prelacies of the King, but of the Pope indeed: Who are then nearest to the Popes power, in ordine ad spiritualia? 3. How will this black mouthed Calumniator, make Presbyterians to dethrone Kings? He hath written a Pamphlet of the inconsistency of Monarchy and Presbyterian Government, consisting of lies, invented Calumnies of his Church, in which he was baptized. But the truth is, all his Arguments prove the inconsistency of Monarchs and Parliaments, and transform any King in a most absolute Tyrant; for which Treason he deserveth to suffer as a Traitor.
2. The Presbyterians must be Popes, because they subject Kings to the Gospel, and Christs Scepter in Church Censures, and think Christian Kings may be rebuked for blasphemy, blood-shed, ⟨p. 412⟩&c. Whereas Prelates, in ordine ad diabolica, murther souls of Kings. 2. Prelates do King Princes. An P. Arch-Prelate, when1 our King was crowned, put the Crown on King Charls Head, the Sword and Scepter in his hand, anointed him in his hands, Crown, shoulders, arms, with sacred Oyl: The King must kisse the Archbishop, and Bishops; is not this to King Princes, in ordine ad spiritualia: And these that Kingeth may unking, and judge what relation the P. Arch-Bishop Spotwood had, when he proffered to the King, the Oath that the Popish Kings sweareth to maintain, the professed Religion (not one word of the true Protestant Religion) and will carefully root out all Hereticks, and enemies (that is Protestants as they expone it,) to the true Worship of God, that shall be convicted by the true Church of God of the foresaid crimes. And when the Prelates professed, they held not their Prelacies of the King, but of the Pope indeed: Who are then nearest to the Popes power, in ordine ad spiritualia? 3. How will this black mouthed Calumniator, make Presbyterians to dethrone Kings? He hath written a Pamphlet of the inconsistency of Monarchie and Presbyterian Government, consisting of lies, invented Calumnies of his Church, in which he was baptized. But the truth is, all his Arguments prove the inconsistencie of Monarchs and Parliaments, and transform any King in a most absolute Tyrant; for which Treason he deserveth to suffer as a Traytor.