A92147:1173
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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The P. Prelate taketh unlearned pains, to prove that Gerson, Occam, Jac. de almaine, Parisian Doctors maintained these same grounds anent the peoples power over Kings in the case of Tyranny, and that before Luther and Calvin was in the world, and this is to give himself the lye, that Luther, Calvin, and we have not this Doctrine from Jesuits, and what is Calvins mind, is evident, Instit, l. 4. c. all that the estates may coerce, and reduce in order a1 Tyrant, else they are deficient in their trust that God hath given them over the Common-wealth and Church; and this is the Doctrine for which Royalists cry out against Master Knox of blessed memory, Buchanan, Junius Brutus, B•uchier, Rossaeus, Althusius, and Luther, in scripto ad pastorem, to 7. German. fol. 386. bringeth two examples for resistance; the people resisted Saul, when he was willing to kill Jonathan his son, and Ahikam and other Princes rescued Jeremiah out of the hands of the King of Judah: and Gerardus citeth many Divines, who second Luther in this, as Bugenliagius, Justus Jonas, Nicholas Ambsderffius, George Spalatinus, Justus Menius, Christopher Hofmanus. It is known what is the mind of ⟨p. 419⟩Protestant Divines, as Beza, Pareus, Melanchthon, Bucanus, Polanus Chamer, all the Divines of France, of Germany, of Holland. No wonder then Prelates were upon the plot of betraying the City of Rochelle, and of the Protestant Church there, when they then will have the Protestants of France, for their defensive wars to be Rebels, and siders with Jesuits, when in these wars Jesuits sought their blood and ruin.
The P. Prelate taketh unlearned paines, to prove that Gerson, Occam, Iac. de almaine, Parisian Doctors maintained these same grounds anent the peoples power over Kings in the case of Tyranny, and that before Luther and Calvine was in the world, and this is to give himselfe the lye, that Luther, Calvin, and we have not this Doctrine from Iesuites, and what is Calvines mind, is evident, Instit, l. 4. c. all that the estates may coerce, and reduce in order a1 Tyrant, else they are deficient in their trust that God hath given them over the Common-wealth and Church; and this is the Doctrine for which Royalists cry out against Master Knox of blessed memory, Buchanan, Iunius Brutus, Buchier, Rossaeus, Althusius, and Luther, in scripto ad pastorem, to 7. German. fol. 386. bringeth two examples for resistance; the people resisted Saul, when he was willing to kill Ionathan his sonne, and Ahikam and other Princes rescued Ieremiah out of the hands of the King of Iudah: and Gerardus citeth many Divines, who second Luther in this, as Bugenliagius, Iustus Ionas, Nicholas Ambsderffius, George Spalatinus, Iustus Menius, Christopher Hofmanus. It is knowne what is the mind of