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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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That which moved the author, was not as my excommunicate1 adversary, like a Thraso, saith, the escapes of some pens, which necessitated him to write, for many before me hath learnedly trodden in this path; but that I might add a new testimony to the times.
That which moved the author, was not as my excommunicate1 adversary, like a Thraso, saith, the escapes of some pens, which necessitated him to write, for many before me hath learnedly trodden in this path; but that I might adde a new testimony to the times.
- 1Sacr. san. Epist. •edi•.
I have not time to examine the P. Prelates Preface, only, I give a taste of his gall in this preface, and of a virulent piece, of his (agnosco stylum et genium Thrasonis) In ⟨image 4⟩which he laboureth to prove how inconsistent presbyterial government is with Monarchy, or any other government.
I have not time to examine the P. Prelates Preface, only, I give a tast of his gall in this preface, and of a virulent peece, of his (agnosco stylum et genium Thrasonis) In ⟨image 4⟩which he laboureth to prove how inconsistent presbyteriall government is with Monarchy, or any other government.