A92147:1178
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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3. We must submit in Monarchy (saith he) to some possible and accidental inconveniences. Here be soft words, but is subversion of ⟨p. 420⟩Religion, Laws, and Liberties of Church and State, introducing of Popery, Arminianism, of Idolatry, Altar-worship, the Mass proved by a learned Treatise, The Canterburian self conviction, printed the 3. edit. an 1641. never answered, couched under the name of inconveniency? The pardoning of the innocent blood of hundreds of thousand Protestants in Ireland, the killing of many thousands, Nobles, Barons, Commons, by the hands of Papists in Arms against the Law of the Land, the making of England a field of blood, the obtruding of an Idolatrous Service-Book, with Armies of men, by Sea and Land, to block up the Kingdom of Scotland. are all these inconveniences only?
3. We must submit in Monarchy (saith he) to some possible and accidentall inconveniences. Here be soft words, but is subversion of ⟨p. 420⟩Religion, Lawes, and Liberties of Church and State, introducing of Popery, Arminianisme, of Idolatry, Altar-worship, the Masse proved by a learned Treatise, The Canterburian selfe conviction, printed the 3. edit. an 1641. never answered, couched under the name of inconveniency? The pardoning of the innocent blood of hundreds of thousand Protestants in Ireland, the killing of many thousands, Nobles, Barons, Commons, by the hands of Papists in Armes against the Law of the Land, the making of England a field of blood, the obtruding of an Idolatrous Service-Booke, with Armies of men, by Sea and Land, to blocke up the Kingdome of Scotland. are all these inconveniences only?
4. Are they only possible and accidental? but make a Monarch absolute, as the P. Prelate doth, and tyranny is as necessary and as much intended by a sinful man, inclined to make a God of himself, as it is natural to men to sin, when they are tempted, and to be drunken and giddy with honour and greatness; witness the Kings of Israel and Judah, though de jure they were not absolute. Is it accidental to Nero, Julian, to the ten horns that grew out of the woman's head, who sate upon the scarlet coloured beast, to make war against the Lamb, and his followers, especially the spirit of Satan being in them?