A92147:1195
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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2. That Christ was King from his conception, as Man borne of the Virgin Mary, suits well with Papists, who will have Christ, as Man, the visible Head of the Church; that so as Christ-man, is now in heaven, he may have a visible Pope to be Head in all Ecclesiastical matters. And that is the reason why this P. Prelate maketh him head of the Church by an Ecclesiastical right, as we heard▪ and so he followeth Becanus the Jesuit, in this, and others his fellows.
2. That Christ was King from his conception, as Man borne of the Virgin Mary, suteth well with Papists, who will have Christ, as Man, the visible Head of the Church; that so as Christ-man, is now in heaven, he may have a visible Pope to be Head in all Ecclesiasticall matters. And that is the reason why this P. Prelate maketh him head of the Church by an Ecclesiasticall right, as we heard▪ and so he followeth Becanus the Iesuite, in this, and others his fellowes.
P. Prelate. 1. Proof. If Kings reign by [Greek or Hebrew] per, in and through Christ, as the Wisdom of God, and the Mediator: then are Kings the Vicegerents of Christ, as Mediator. But the former is said, Prov. 8. 15, 16. as D. Andrews, of blessed memory.
P. Prelate. 1. Proofe. If Kings reigne by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 per, in and through Christ, as the Wisdome of God, and the Mediator: then are Kings the Vicegerents of Christ, as Mediator. But the former is said, Prov. 8. 15, 16. as D. Andrewes, of blessed memorie.