A92147:1246
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.
3. A King hath greater outward glory, and may do much more service to Christ in respect of extension, and is excellenter then the Pastor, who yet, in regard of intension, is busied about nobler things, to wit, the Soul, the Gospel, Eternity, than the King.
3. A King hath greater outward glory, and may doe much more service to Christ in respect of extension, and is excellenter then the Pastor, who yet, in regard of intension, is busied about nobler things, to wit, the Soule, the Gospel, Eternitie, than the King.
4. Superstition maddeth men; but it followeth not, that true Religion may not set them on work to defend soul and body against Tyranny of the Crown, and Antichristian Mitres.
4. Superstition maddeth men; but it followeth not, that true Religion may not set them on work to defend soule and body against Tyrannie of the Crown, and Antichristian Mitres.
P. Prelate. The Kingdom had peace, and plenty in Prelates time.
P. Prelate. The Kingdome had peace, and plentie in Prelates time.