A92147:144
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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QUEST. XLI. Whether doth the P. P. with reason ascribe to us the doctrine of Jesuits, in the Question of lawful defence? Negatur, p. 410, 411, 412. That Sovereignty is originally and radically in the people, as in the Fountain, was taught by Fathers, ancient Doctors, sound Divines, Lawyers, before there was a Jesuit, or a Prelate whelped, in rerum natura, p. 413. The P. P. holdeth the Pope to be the Vicar of Christ, p. 414, 415. Jesuits tenets concerning Kings, p. 415, 416, 417. The King not the peoples Deputy by our doctrine; it is only the calumny of the P. Prelate, p. 417, 418. The P. P. will have power to act the bloodiest tyrannies on earth, upon the Church of Christ, the essential power of a King, ibid.
QUEST. XLI. Whether doth the P. P. with reason ascribe to us the doctrine of Jesuites, in the Question of lawfull defence? Negatur, p. 410, 411, 412. That Soveraignty is originally and radically in the people, as in the Fountain, was taught by Fathers, ancient Doctors, sound Divines, Lawyers, before there was a Jesuite, or a Prelate whelped, in rerum natura, p. 413. The P. P. holdeth the Pope to be the Vicar of Christ, p. 414, 415. Iesuites tenets concerning Kings, p. 415, 416, 417. The King not the peoples Deputie by our doctrine; it is onely the calumnie of the P. Prelate, p. 417, 418. The P. P. will have power to act the bloodiest tyrannies on earth, upon the Church of Christ, the essentiall power of a King, ibid.
QUEST. XLII. Whether all Christian Kings are dependent from Christ, and may be called his Vicegerents, Negatur, p. 422. Why God as God, hath a man a Vicegerent under him, but not as Mediator, p. 422, 423. The King not head of the Church, ibid. The King a sub-mediator, and an under redeemer, and a sub-priest to offer sacrifices to God for us, if he be a Vicegerent, p. 423. The King no mixed person, ibid. Prelates deny Kings to be subject to the Gospel, p. 426, 427. By no Prerogative Royal, may the King prescribe religious observances, and humane ceremonies in Gods worship, p. 424, 425. The P. P. giveth to the King a power Arbitrary, supreme and independent to govern the Church, p. 429, 430. ⟨image 21⟩