A92147:1204
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.
2. Men in holy Orders sprinkled with one of the Papists five1 blessed Sacraments, such as Antichristian Prelates, unwashed Priests to offer sacrifices, and Popish Deacons, are no more admitted by Christ to enter into his sanctuary as governors, then the Leper into the Camp of old, and the Moabite and Ammonite were to enter into the congregation of the Lord, Deut. 23. 3. therefore we have excommunicated this P. Prelate, and such Moabites out of the Lords house. 2. What be the things that do not primly concern salvation, the P. Prelate knoweth, to wit, Images in the Church, Altar worship, Antichristian Ceremonies, which primly concern damnation.
2. Men in holy Orders sprinkled with one of the Papists five1 blessed Sacraments, such as Antichristian Prelates, unwashed Priests to offer sacrifices, and Popish Deacons, are no more admitted by Christ to enter into his sanctuary as governours, then the Leaper into the Campe of old, and the Moabite and Ammonite were to enter into the congregation of the Lord, Deut. 23. 3. therefore we have excommunicated this P. Prelate, and such Moabites out of the Lords house. 2. What be the things that doe not primely concerne salvation, the P. Prelate knoweth, to wit, Images in the Church, Altar worship, Antichristian Ceremonies, which primely concerne damnation.
- 1The King no mixed person, or half Clergy man, in the externail government of the Church, as the P. P. dreameth.The King no mixed person, or half Clergie man, in the externail government of the Church, as the P. P. dreameth.
3. I understand not what the P. Prelate meaneth, that the King