A92147:1213
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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2. The Excommunicate Prelate is turned Chaplain to Preach to the Pope: the Soul-rest that Protestants wish to the Pope is, That the Lord would destroy him by the Spirit of his mouth, 2 Thes. 2. 8. But P. Prelates, This wish is a Reformation of accidents, ⟨p. 426⟩with the safety of the subject, the Pope, and is as good as a wish, That the Devil remaining a Devil, may find rest for his soul, all we are to pray for; as having place in the Church, are supposed members of the Church. The Prelate would not pray so for the Presbytery, by which he was ordained a Pastor, 1 Tim. 4. 14. though he be now an Apostate: It is gratitude to pray for his lucky father the Pope. What ever the Prelate wish, we pray for, and believe, that desolation shall be his Soul-rest, and that the vengeance of the Lord, and of his Temple, shall fall upon him, and the Prelates his sons.
2. The Excommunicate Prelate is turned Chaplain to Preach to the Pope: the Soul-rest that Protestants wish to the Pope is, That the Lord would destroy him by the Spirit of his mouth, 2 Thes. 2. 8. But P. Prelates, This wish is a Reformation of accidents, ⟨p. 426⟩with the safety of the subject, the Pope, and is as good as a wish, That the Devill remaining a Devill, may finde rest for his soul, all we are to pray for; as having place in the Church, are supposed members of the Church. The Prelate would not pray so for the Presbytery, by which he was ordained a Pastour, 1 Tim. 4. 14. though he be now an Apostate: It is gratitude to pray for his lucky father the Pope. What ever the Prelate wish, we pray for, and beleeve, that desolation shall be his Soul-rest, and that the vengeance of the Lord, and of his Temple, shall fall upon him, and the Prelates his sons.