A92147:1242
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.
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.
P. Prelate. Religion is the bottome of all happinesse, if you make the1 King only to execute what a Presbyterie commandeth, he is in a hard case, and you take from him the chiefest in Government. Ecclesiasticall power hath the soule in subjection; the Civill Soveraigntie holdeth a dead dominion ever the body. Then the Pope and Presbyterie 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.
- 1P. 66, 67, 68.
Ans. Cold and dry is the P. P. when he spendeth four pages in declamation for the excellency of Religion; The madness of Superstition, nothing to the purpose.
Ans. Cold and dry is the P. P. when he spendeth foure pages in declamation for the excellencie of Religion; The madnesse of Superstition, nothing to the purpose.