A92147:1284
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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The Confession of Helvetia saith, c. 30. de Magistratu.—Viduas, pupillos, afflictos asserat: Every Magistrate is to defend the widow, the orphan, and the oppressed. The French Confession saith, art. 40. Affirmamus ergo parendumesse Legibus & Statutis, solvenda Tributa, subjectionis denique jugum voluntariè tolerandum, etiamsi infidels fuerint Magistratus, dummodo Dei summum imperium integrum & illibatum maneat. So clear it is, that all active obedience, is due to all Magistrates, and that that yoke of passive obedience is to be tolerated, but conditionally, with a dummodo, so as the Magistrate violate not the supreme commandment of the King of Kings. And1 we know accordingly, Protestants of that Church have taken defensive arms against their King. But our P. Prelate can say, The Confessions of Scotland, Helvetia, France, and all the Reformed Churches, are Jesuitical: when as it was the doctrine of the Waldenses, Protestants, and Luther, Calvin and others, while as there was no Jesuit on earth.
The Confession of Helvetia saith, c. 30. de Magistratu.—Viduas, pupillos, afflictos asserat: Every Magistrate is to defend the widow, the orphan, and the oppressed. The French Confession saith, art. 40. Affirmamus ergo parendumesse Legibus & Statutis, solvenda Tributa, subjectionis denique jugum voluntariè tolerandum, etiamsi infideles fuerint Magistratus, dummodo Dei summum imperium integrum & illibatum maneat. So cleare it is, that all active obedience, is due to all Magistrates, and that that yoake of passive obedience is to be tolerated, but conditionally, with a dummodo, so as the Magistrate violate not the supreme commandement of the King of Kings. And1 we know accordingly, Protestants of that Church have taken defensive armes against their King. But our P. Prelate can say, The Confessions of Scotland, Helvetia, France, and all the Reformed Churches, are Jesuiticall: when as it was the doctrine of the Waldenses, Protestants, and Luther, Calvin and others, while as there was no Iesuite on earth.
- 1Angl. Conf. art. 37. Sed eam tantum Prerogativam aequam in sacris Scripturis à Deo ipso omnibus piis Princibus semper fuisse tributam, hoc est, ut omnes status atque ordines fidei, sive commlssos, sixe illi ecclesiastiei sint, sive civiles, in officio ontineant, & ontumaces ac delinquents gladio civili oerceant.