A92147:43
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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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.
1 He denieth that the Crown and Sceptre is under any coactive power of Pope, or Presbytery, or censurable, or dethroneable: to which we say, Presbyteries profess that Kings are under the coactive power of Christs keys of discipline, and that Prophets and Pastors, as Ambassadors of Christ, have the keys of the kingdom of God, to open and let in believing Princes, and also to shut them out, if they rebel against Christ; the law of Christ excepteth none, Mat. 16. 19. Mat. 18. 15, 16. 2 Cor. 10. 6. Jer. 1. 9. 18. if the Kings sins may be remitted in a ministerial way, as Joh. 20. 23, 24. as Prelates and their Priests absolve Kings; we think they may be bound by the hand that loosed, Presbyteries never dethroned Kings, never usurped that power; Your father P. Prelate, hath dethroned many Kings; 1