A92147:1251
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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3. Something he saith of Popes usurping over Kings; but only of one of his fathers, a great unclean spirit, Gregory the Great: But ⟨p. 433⟩if he had refuted him by Gods Word, he should have thrown stones at his own Tribe; for Prelates, like him, doe, ex officio, trample upon the neck of Kings.
3. Something he saith of Popes usurping over Kings; but only of one of his fathers, a great uncleane spirit, Gregorie the Great: But ⟨p. 433⟩if he had refuted him by Gods Word, he should have thrown stones at his own Tribe; for Prelates, like him, doe, ex officio, trample upon the neck of Kings.
4. His testimonies of one Council, and one Father, for all Antiquity, proveth nothing. Athanasius said, God hath given Davids Throne to Kings: What, to be Head of the Church? No, to be the Minister of God, without [Greek or Hebrew] to tutor the Church. And because Kings reign by Christ, as the Council of Arimin saith; therefore it may follow, a Baily is also Head of the Church. It is taken from Prov. 8. and answered.
4. His testimonies of one Councell, and one Father, for all Antiquitie, proveth nothing. Athanasius said, God hath given Davids Throne to Kings: What, to be Head of the Church? No, to be the Minister of God, without 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 to tutour the Church. And because Kings reigne by Christ, as the Councell of Arimin saith; therefore it may follow, a Baily is also Head of the Church. It is taken from Prov. 8. and answered.