A92147:1188
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
QUEST. XLII. Whether all Christian Kings are dependent from Christ, and may be called his Vicegerents?
The P. Prelate taketh on him to prove the truth of this: but the 1question is not pertinent: it belongeth to another head, to the Kings power in Church matters. I therefore only examine what he saith, and follow him.
THe P. Prelate taketh on him to prove the truth of this: but the 1question is not pertinent: it belongeth to another head, to the Kings power in Church matters. I therefore only examine what he saith, and follow him.
- 1The King not the Vicegerent of Christ, as mediator.
P. Prelate. Sectaries have found a Query of late, that Kings are Gods, not Christs Lieutenants on earth. Romanists and Puritans erect two Sovereigns in every State; The Jesuit, in the Pope; the Puritan, in the Presbytery.
P. Prelate. Sectaries have found a Quere of late, that Kings are Gods, not Christs Lieutenants on earth. Romanists and Puritans erect two Soveraignes in every State; The Jesuite, in the Pope; the Puritan, in the Presbyterie.