A92147:1227
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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Ans. 1. Pastors have a ministerial power (saith he) in spiritual 1things, but in order to Christ, ergo in order to others it is not ministerial, but Lordly. So here a Lordly power Pastors have over Kings, by the P. P. way. We teach it is ministerial in relation to all, because Ministers can make no Laws as Kings can do, but only as Heralds, declare Christs Laws.
Ans. 1. Pastors have a ministeriall power (saith he) in spirituall 1things, but in order to Christ, ergo in order to others it is not ministeriall, but Lordly. So here a Lordly power Pastors have over Kings, by the P. P. way. We teach it is ministeriall in relation to all, because Ministers can make no Lawes as Kings can doe, but only as Heralds, declare Christs Lawes.
- 1The Ministerial power of Pastors what.The Ministeriall power of Pastors what.
2. None of us give any coercive Civill power to the Church, over either Kings, or any other, it is Ecclesiastical; a power to rebuke and censure was never civill.
2. None of us give any coercive Civill power to the Church, over either Kings, or any other, it is Ecclesiasticall; a power to rebuke and censure was never civill.
3. A religious Covenant to swear to resist, that is, to defend our selves is one thing, and a lawful Oath, as is clear in those of Israel, that did swear Asa's Covenant, without the authority of their own King,