A92147:39
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There is another cause of the sickness of our time; God plagued Heresy, to beget Atheism and security, as Atheism and security had begotten Heresy, even as clouds through reciprocation of causes engender rain, rain begat vapours, vapours clouds, and clouds rain, so do sins overspread our sad times in a circular generation.
There is another cause of the sicknesse of our time; God plagued Heresie, to beget Atheisme and security, as Atheisme and security had begotten Heresie, even as clouds through reciprocation of causes engender rain, rain begate vapours, vapours clouds, and clouds rain, so do sins overspread our sad times in a circular generation.
And now judgement presseth the kingdoms, and of all the heaviest judgements the sword, and of swords the civill sword, threateneth vastation, yet not, I hope, like the Roman civill sword, of which it was said, Bella geri placuit nullos habitura triumphos.
And now judgement presseth the kingdoms, and of all the heaviest judgements the sword, and of swords the civill sword, threatneth vastation, yet not, I hope, like the Roman civill sword, of which it was said, Bella geri placuit nullos habitura triumphos.
I hope this war shall be Christs Triumph, Babylons ruin.
I hope this war shalbe Christs Triumph, Babylons ruine.