A92147:1207
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. Kings have the sign of the Cross on their Crowns.
P. Prelate. Kings have the sign of the Crosse on their Crowns.
Answ. Ergo, Baculus est in angulo. Prelates have put a cross in the Kings heart, and crossed Crown and Throne to, Really. Some Knights, some Ships, some Cities and Burroughs, do carry a cross; are they made Christs vice-gerents of late? By what antiquity doth the Cross signify Christ? Of old it was a badge of Christians, no Religious Ceremony; and is this all. The King is the vicegerent of Christians. The Prelates we know, adore the Cross with Religious worship: so must they adore the Crown.
Answ. Ergo, Baculus est in angulo. Prelates have put a crosse in the Kings heart, and crossed Crown and Throne to, Really. Some Knights, some Ships, some Cities and Burroughes, do carry a crosse; are they made Christs vice-gerents of late? By what antiquity doth the Crosse signifie Christ? Of old it was a badge of Christians, no Religious Ceremony; and is this all. The King is the vicegerent of Christians. The Prelates we know, adore the Crosse with Religious worship: so must they adore the Crown.
P. Prelate. Grant that the Pope were the Vicar of Christ in spiritual things, it followeth not: Ergo, Kings Crowns are subject to the Pope; for Papists teach, that all power that was in Christ, as man, as power to work miracles, to institute Sacraments, was not transmitted to Peter and his successors.
P. Prelate. Grant that the Pope were the Vicar of Christ in spirituall things, it followeth not: Ergo, Kings Crowns are subject to the Pope; for Papists teach, that all power that was in Christ, as man, as power to work miracles, to institute Sacraments, was not transmitted to Peter and his successors.