A92147:1193
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. We speak of Christ as Head of the Church. Some think that Christ was King by his Resurrection, jure acquisito, by a new title, Right of merit. I think he was a King from his conception.
P. Prelate. We speake of Christ as Head of the Church. Some think that Christ was King by his Resurrection, jure acquisito, by a new title, Right of merit. I think he was a King from his conception.
Ans. You declare hereby, that the King is a ministerial Head of1 the Church, under the head Christ. All our Divines disputing against the Popes headship, say, No mortal man hath shoulders for ⟨p. 423⟩so glorious a head. You give the King such shoulders. But why are not the Kings, even Nero, Julian, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Vicegerents of Christ, as Mediator, as Priest, as Redeemer, as Prophet, as Advocate, presenting our prayers to God his Father? What action, I pray you, have Christian Kings, by office, under Christ, in dying, and rising from the dead for us, in sending down the Holy Ghost, preparing mansions for us? Now it is as proper and incommunicably reciprocal with the Mediator, to be the only Head of the body the Church, Col. 1. 18. as to be the only Redeemer and Advocate of his Church.
Ans. You declare hereby, that the King is a ministeriall Head of1 the Church, under the head Christ. All our Divines disputing against the Popes headship, say, No mortall man hath shoulders for ⟨p. 423⟩so glorious a head. You give the King such shoulders. But why are not the Kings, euen Nero, Iulian, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazer, Vicegerents of Christ, as Mediator, as Priest, as Redeemer, as Prophet, as Advocate, presenting our prayers to God his Father? What action, I pray you, have Christian Kings, by office, under Christ, in dying, and rising from the dead for us, in sending down the Holy Ghost, preparing mansions for us? Now it is as proper and incommunicably reciprocall with the Mediator, to be the only Head of the body the Church,