A92147:1239
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. p. 65. The P. P. said, Let no man imagine we privilege the King from the direction and power of the Church, so he be no intruding Uzzah. I pray, P. P. what is this Church power? Is it not supreme in its kind of Church power? or is it subordinate to the King? If it be supreme, see how P. P. maketh two Supremes, and two Sovereigns.1 If it be subordinate to the King, as he is a mixed person, the King is privileged from this power, and he may intrude as Uzzah; and by his prerogative, as a mixed person, he may say Mass, and offer a sacrifice, if there be no power above his prerogative to curb him. If there be none, the P. P. his imagination is real, ⟨p. 431⟩The King is privileged from all Church power. Let the P. P. see to it; I see no inconvenience for reciprocations of subjections in two Supremes; and that they may mutually censure and judge one another.
2. p. 65. The P. P. said, Let no man imagine we priviledge the King from the direction and power of the Church, so he be no intruding Ʋzzah. I pray, P. P. what is this Church power? Is it not supreme in its kinde of Church power? or is it subordinate to the King? If it be supreme, see how P. P. maketh two Supremes, and two Soveraignes.1 If it be subordinate to the King, as he is a mixt person, the King is priviledged from this power, and he may intrude as Ʋzzah; and by his prerogative, as a mixed person, he may say Masse, and offer a sacrifice, if there be no power above his prerogative to curbe him. If there be none, the P. P. his imagination is reall, ⟨p. 431⟩The King is priviledged from all Church power. Let the P. P. see to it; I see no inconvenience for reciprocations of subjections in two Supremes; and that they may mutually censure and judge one another.
- 1Two Supremes under Christ; one in the Church, another in the State, are not absurd.