A92147:196
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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Answ. Begin with the Law, but end not with Traditions. If God by himself prescribed the essentials of piety and worship, the other ⟨p. 22⟩part of your distinction is, that God not by himself, but by his Prelates, appointed the whole Romish Rites, as accidentals of piety. This is the Jesuits doctrine. 2. This place is so far from proving the King to be independent, and that it totally is Gods to appoint a King, that it expressly giveth the people power to appoint a King: for the setting of a King over themselves, such a one, and not such a one, makes the people to appoint the King, and the King to be less and dependent on the people, seeing God intendeth the King for the peoples good, and not the people for the Kings good. This text shameth the Prelate, who also confessed, P. 22. That remotely and unproperly succession, election, and conquest maketh the King, and so its lawful for men remotely and improperly to invade Gods chair.
Answ. Begin with the Law, but end not with Traditions. If God by himselfe prescribed the essentialls of pietie and worship, the other ⟨p. 22⟩part of your distinction is, that God not by himself, but by his Prelates, appointed the whole Romish Rites, as accidentalls of pietie. This is the Iesuites doctrine. 2. This place is so far from proving the King to be independent, and that it totally is Gods to appoint a King, that it expresly giveth the people power to appoint a King: for the setting of a King over themselves, such a one, and not such a one, makes the people to appoint the King, and the King to be lesse and dependent on the people, seeing God intendeth the King for the peoples good, and not the people for the Kings good. This text shameth the Prelate, who also confessed, P. 22. That remotely and unproperly succession, election, and conquest maketh the King, and so its lawfull for men remotely and improperly to invade Gods chaire.
P. Prelate: Jesuits and Puritans say, it was a privilege of the Jews that God chose their King. So Suarez, Soto, Navarra.