A92147:1248
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. The Kingdom had peace, and plenty in Prelates time.
P. Prelate. The Kingdome had peace, and plentie in Prelates time.
Ans. A belly-argument. We had plenty, when we sacrificed to the Queen of Heaven. 2. If the Traveller contend to have his purse again, shall the Robber say, Robbery was blessed with peace? The rest, to the end, are lies, and answered already. Only his invectives against ruling Elders, falsely called Lay-Elders, are not to purpose. Parliament-Priests, and Lay and Court-Pastors, are Lay-Prophets.
Ans. A belly-argument. We had plenty, when we sacrificed to the Queen of Heaven. 2. If the Traveller contend to have his purse againe, shall the Robber say, Robberie was blessed with peace? The rest, to the end, are lies, and answered already. Only his invectives against ruling Elders, falsly called Lay-Elders, are not to purpose. Parliament-Priests, and Lay and Court-Pastors, are Lay-Prophets.
2. That Presbyteries▪ meddle with Civill business, is a slander;1 They meddle with public scandals that offendeth in Christs Kingdom. But the Prelate, by office, was more in two elements, in Church and State, then any Frogs even in the Kings Leaven-tubs ordinarily.
2. That Presbyteries▪ meddle with Civill businesse, is a slander;1 They meddle with publike scandals that offendeth in Christs Kingdome. But the Prelate, by office, was more in two elements, in Church and State, then any Frogs even in the Kings Leaven-tubs ordinarily.