A92147:1243
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. 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.
1. The King hath a chief hand in Church affairs, when he is a Nurse-father, and beareth the Royal sword to defend both the Tables of the Law, though he do not spin and weave Surplices, and other base Mass-clothes, to Prelates, and such Priests of Baal: They dishonour his Majesty, who bring his Prerogative so low.
1. The King hath a chiefe hand in Church affaires, when he is a Nurse-father, and beareth the Royall sword to defend both the Tables of the Law, though he doe not spin and weave Surplices, and other base Masse-cloaths, to Prelates, and such Priests of Baal: They dishonour his Majestie, who bring his Prerogative so low.
2. The King doth not execute with blind obedience, with us,1 what the Pope commandeth, and the Prelates; but with light of knowledge what Synods discerns: and he is no more made the servant of the Church by this, then the King of Judah, and Nebuchadnezzar are servants to Jeremiah and Daniel, because they are to obey the Word of the Lord in their mouth. Let them show a reason of ⟨p. 432⟩this, why they are servants in executing Gods will in Discipline, and in punishing what the Holy Ghost by his Apostles and Elders decree, when any contemn the Decree concerning the abstinence from blood, things strangled, &c.