A92147:1214
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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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. That which they purpose, by denying Kings to be Christs Vice-gerents, is to set up a Sovereignty Ecclesiastical in Presbyteries, to constrain Kings, repeal his Laws, correct his Statutes, reverse his Judgements, to cite, convent, and censure Kings; and if there be not power to execute, what Presbyteries decrees, they may call and command the help of the people, in whom is the underived Majesty; and promise, and swear, and covenant to defend their fancies, against all mortal men, with their Goods, Lands, Fortunes, to admit no divisive motion; and this Sovereign Association maketh every private man an armed Magistrate.
P. Prelate. That which they purpose, by denying Kings to be Christs Vice-gerents, is to set up a Soveraignty Ecclesiasticall in Presbyteries, to constrain Kings, repeal his Laws, correct his Satutes, reverse his Judgements, to cite, convent, and censure Kings; and if there be not power to execute, what Presbyteries decrees, they may call and command the help of the people, in whom is the underived Majestie; and promise, and swear, and covenant to defend their fancies, against all mortall men, with their Goods, Lands, Fortunes, to admit no divisive motion; and this Soveraign Association maketh every private man an armed Magistrate.
Answ. You see the Excommunicate Apostates tussles against the1 Presbytery of a Reformed Church, from which he had his baptism, faith, ministry.
Answ. You see the Excommunicate Apostats tusles against the1 Presbytery of a Reformed Church, from which he had his baptism, fiath, ministery.
- 1The Power of Presbyteries Ministerial.The Power of Presbyteries Ministeriall.