A92147:1191
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. 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.
Ans. We give a reason why God hath a Lieutenant, as God; Because Kings are Gods, bearing the sword of vengeance against seditious and bloody Prelates, and other ill-doers. But Christ, God-Man, the Mediator and Head of the body the Church, hath neither Pope nor King to be head under him. The sword is communicable to men; but the Headship of Christ is communicable to no King, nor to any created shoulders. 2. The Jesuit maketh the Pope a King: and so this P. Prelate maketh him, in extent, the Bishop of Bishops, and so King, as I have proved. But we place no Sovereignty in Presbyteries, but a mere ministerial power of servants, who do not take on them to make Laws and Religious Ceremonies, as Prelates do, who indeed make themselves Kings and Lawgivers in Gods house.
Ans. We give a reason why God hath a Lieutenant, as God; Because Kings are Gods, bearing the sword of vengeance against seditious and bloody Prelates, and other ill-doers. But Christ, God-Man, the Mediator and Head of the body the Church, hath neither Pope nor King to be head under him. The sword is communicable to men; but the Headship of Christ is communicable to no King, nor to any created shoulders. 2. The Iesuite maketh the Pope a King: and so this P. Prelate maketh him, in extent, the Bishop of Bishops, and so King, as I have proved. But we place no Soveraigntie in Presbyteries, but a meere ministeriall power of servants, who doe not take on them to make Lawes and Religious Ceremonies, as Prelates doe, who indeed make themselves Kings and Lawgivers in Gods house.