A92147:1209
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. 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.
Answ. This is a base consequence, Make the Pope head of the Church: the King, if he be a mixed person, that is, half a Churchman, and Christs Vice-gerent; both he and Prelates must be members of the head. Papists teach, that all in Christ as man, cannot be transmitted to Peter, but a Ministerial Catholic Headship (say Bucanus and his fellows) was transmitted from Christ as man, and visible head, to Peter and the Pope.
Answ. This is a base consequence, Make the Pope head of the Church: the King, if he be a mixed person, that is, half a Churchman, and Christs Vice-gerent; both he and Prelates must be members of the head. Papists teach, that all in Christ as man, cannot be transmitted to Peter, but a Ministeriall Catholike Headship (say Bucanus and his fellows) was transmitted from Christ as man, and visible head, to Peter and the Pope.
P. Prelate. I wish the Pope, who claimeth so near alliance with1 Christ, would learn of him to be meek and humble in heart; so should he find rest to his own soul, to Church and State.