A92147:202
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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Doth that prove, that men and the Church may not also in their place, remove an unworthy Churchman, when the Church following Gods Word, delivereth to Satan? Christ only as head of the Church, excommunicateth scandalous men: Ergo, The Church cannot do it, and yet the Argument is as good the one way, as the other; for all the Churches on earth cannot make a Minister properly, they but design him to the Ministry whom God hath gifted and called: But shall we conclude, ergo, no Church on earth; but God only, by an immediate action from Heaven, can deprive a Minister? how then durst Prelates excommunicate, unmake, and imprison so many Ministers in the three Kingdoms: But the truth is, take this one Argument from the Prelate, and all that is in his Book, falleth to the ground, to wit, Sovereignty is from God only. A King is a creature of Gods making only; and what then? Ergo, Sovereignty cannot be taken from him: So God only made Aaron's house Priests. 2. Solomon had ⟨p. 25⟩no Law to depose Abiathar from the Priest-hood. Possibly the Prelate will grant all; the place, Rom. 13. which he saith hath tortured us, I refer to a fitter place, it will be found to torture Court Parasites.
Doth that prove, that men and the Church may not also in their place, remove an unworthy Churchman, when the Church following Gods Word, delivereth to Satan? Christ onely as head of the Church, excommunicateth scandalous men: Ergo, The Church cannot do it, and yet the Argument is as good the one way, as the other; for all the Churches on earth cannot make a Minister properly, they but design him to the Ministery whom God hath gifted and called: But shall we conclude, ergo, no Church on earth; but God onely, by an immediate action from Heaven, can deprive a Minister? how then durst Prelates excommunicate, unmake, and imprison so many Ministers in the three Kingdoms: But the truth is, take this one Argument from the Prelate, and all that is in his Book, falleth to the ground, to wit, Soveraigntie is from God onely. A King is a creature of Gods making onely; and what then? Ergo, Soveraigntie cannot be taken from him: So God onely made Aarons house Priests. 2. Solomon had ⟨p. 25⟩no Law to depose Abiathar from the Priest-hood. Possibly the Prelate will grant all; the place,