A92147:1205
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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3. I understand not what the P. Prelate meaneth, that the King 1preserveth external Government in order and decency, in Scotland, in our Parliament, 1633. the prescribed Surplice, and he commanded the Service-book, and the Mass-worship. The Prelate degradeth ⟨p. 425⟩the King here, to make him only keep, or preserve the Prelates Mass-Clothes: they intended indeed to make the King but the Popes servant, for all they say and do for him now.
3. I understand not what the P. Prelate meaneth, that the King 1preserveth externall Government in order and decency, in Scotland, in our Parliament, 1633. the prescribed Surplice, and he commanded the Service-booke, and the Masse-worship. The Prelate degradeth ⟨p. 425⟩the King here, to make him onely keep, or preserve the Prelates Masse-Clothes: they intended indeed to make the King but the Popes servant, for all they say and do for him now.
- 11 Parl. King Charles, a•. 1633.
4. If the King be vicegerent of Christ in prescribing Laws for the external ordering of the worship, and all their decent symbolical Ceremonies: What more doth the Pope, and the Prelate in that kind? He may, with as good warrant Preach and Administrate the Sacraments.
4. If the King be vicegerent of Christ in prescribing Laws for the externall ordering of the worship, and all their decent symbolicall Ceremonies: What more doth the Pope, and the Prelate in that kinde? He may, with as good warrant Preach and Administrate the Sacraments.