A92147:1215
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.
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.
1. We deny the King to be the head of the Church.
2. We assert, that in the Pastors, Doctors, and Elders of the Church, there is a Ministerial power, as servants under Christ, in his authority, and name, to rebuke and censure Kings; that there is revenge in the Gospel against all disobedience, 2 Cor. 2. 6. and 10. 6. The rod of God, 1 Cor. 4. 21. The rod of Christs lips, Isai. 11. 4. The Sceptre and Sword of Christ, Revel. 1. 16