A92147:1202
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. Kings are nurse-fathers of the Church, ergo, they hold1 their crowns of Christ: 3. Divines say, that by men in sacred Orders Christ doth rule his Church mediately, in those things which primly concern salvation; and that by Kings their sceptre and power, he doth protect his Church, and what concerneth external pomp, order and decency. Then, in this latter sense, Kings are no less the immediate Vicegerents of Christ, than Bishops, Priests and Deacons, in the former.
P. Prelate. Kings are nurse-fathers of the Church, ergo, they hold1 their crowns of Christ: 3. Divines say, that by men in sacred Orders Christ doth rule his Church mediately, in those things which primely concerne salvation; and that by Kings their scepter and power, he doth protect his Church, and what concerneth externall pompe, order and decencie. Then, in this latter sense, Kings are no lesse the immediate Vicegerents of Christ, than Bishops, Priests and Deacons, in the former.
- 12 Reas. p. 58.
Ans. Because Kings hold their Crowns of Christ, as Mediator and Redeemer, it followeth by as good consequence, Kings are submediators and under-Priests, and Redeemers, as Vicegerents. Christ, as King, hath no visible Royal Vicegerents under him.
Ans. Because Kings hold their Crownes of Christ, as Mediator and Redeemer, it followeth by as good consequence, Kings are submediators and under-Priests, and Redeemers, as Vicegerents. Christ, as King, hath no visible Royall Vicegerents under him.