A92147:1154
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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P. Prelate. Q. 1. c. 1. The Puritan saith, That all power Civill, is radically and originally seated in the Community; he here joineth hands with the Jesuit.
P. Prelate. Q. 1. c. 1. The Puritan saith, That all power Civill, is radically and originally seated in the Communitie; he here joyneth hands with the Jesuite.
Answ. In six pages he repeateth the same things. 1. Is this such an Heresy, that a Colony casted into America by the Tyranny of P. Prelates, have power to choose their own Governors; all Israel was Heretical in this, for David could not be their King, though designed and anointed by God, 1 Sam. 16. till the people, • Sam. 5. put forth in act, this power, and made David King in Hebron. 2. Let the Prelate make a Syllogism, it is but ex utraque affirmante in secunda figura, Logic like the bellies of the Court, in which men of their own way is disgraced and cast out of Grace and Court, because in this controversy of the King with his two Parliaments, they are like Erasmus in Gods matters, who said, Lutherum nec accuso, nec defendo. 1. He is discourted who ever he be, who is in shape like a Puritan, and not fire and sword against ⟨p. 413⟩Religion and his Country, and Oath and Covenant with God, and so it is this. The Jesuit teacheth, that power of Government is in the Community originally. The Puritan teacheth, that power of Government is in the Community originally. Ergo, The Puritan is a Jesuit. But so the Puritan is a Jesuit, because he and the Jesuit teacheth, that there is on God, and three persons; And if the Prelate like this reasoning, we shall make himself and the Prelates, and Court-Divines, Jesuits upon surer grounds.
Answ. In six pages he repeateth the same things. 1. Is this such an Heresie, that a Colonie casted into America by the Tyranny of P. Prelates, have power to choose their own Governours; all Israel was Hereticall in this, for David could not be their King, though designed and anointed by God,