A92147:1240
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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Object. Not in the same cause; that is impossible. If the King say Mass, shall the Church judge and censure the King for intrusion? and because the King is also Sovereign and Supreme in his kind, he may judge and punish the Church for their act of judging and censuring the King; it being an intrusion on his prerogative, that any should judge the highest Judge.
Object. Not in the same cause; that is impossible. If the King say Masse, shall the Church judge and censure the King for intrusion? and because the King is also Soveraigne and Supreme in his kinde, he may judge and punish the Church for their act of judging and censuring the King; it being an intrusion on his prerogative, that any should judge the highest Judge.
Ans. The one is not subject to the other, but in the case of maladministration: the innocent, as innocent, is subject to no higher punishing; he may be subject to a higher, as accusing, citing, &c. Now the Royalist must give instance in the same cause, where the Church faileth against the King and his Civill law; and the King in the same cause faileth against the Church-canon; and then it shall be easy to answer.
Ans. The one is not subiect to the other, but in the case of maleadministration: the innocent, as innocent, is subject to no higher punishing; he may be subject to a higher, as accusing, citing, &c. Now the Royalist must give instance in the same cause, where the Church faileth against the King and his Civill law; and the King in the same cause faileth against the Church-canon; and then it shall be easie to answer.
P. Prelate. Religion is the bottom of all happiness, if you make the1 King only to execute what a Presbytery commandeth, he is in a hard case, and you take from him the chiefest in Government. Ecclesiastical power hath the soul in subjection; the Civill Sovereignty holdeth a dead dominion ever the body. Then the Pope and Presbytery shall be in better condition then the King. Cic. in Ver. Omnes Religione moventur: Superstition is furious, and maddeth people, that they spare neither Crown nor Mitre.