A92147:1196
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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.
Ans. 1. Denies the major: All believers living the life of God 1ingrafted in Christ as branches in the tree, Job. 15. 1. 2▪ should by the same reason be Vicegerents of the Mediator: so should the Angels, to whom Christ is a head, Col. 2. 10. be his Vicegerents; and all the Judges and Constables on earth, should be under-Mediators, for they live and act in Christ: yea, all the Creatures, in the Mediator, are made new, Rev. 21. 5. Rom. 8. 20, 21, 22.
Ans. 1. Denies the major: All beleevers living the life of God 1ingrafted in Christ as branches in the tree,