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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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2 When sacred Hierarchy, the order instituted by Christ, is overthrown, what is the condition of Sovereignty? Ans. Surer then before, when Prelates deposed Kings. 2. I fear Christ shall never own this order.
2 When sacred Hierarchy, the order instituted by Christ, is overthrown, what is the condition of Soveraignty? Ans. Surer then before, when Prelates deposed Kings. 2. I fear Christ shall never own this order.
3 The Mitre cannot suffer, and the Diadem be secured. Ans. Have Kings no pillars to their thrones, but Antichristian Prelates? Prelates have trampled Diadem and Sceptre under their feet, as histories teach us.
3 The Mitre cannot suffer, and the Diadem be secured. Ans. Have Kings no pillars to their thrones, but Antichristian Prelates? Prelates have trampled Diadem and Scepter under their feet, as histories teach us.
4 Do they not (Puritans) magisterially determine, that Kings are not of Gods creation by Authoritative Commission; but only by permission, extorted by importunity, and way given, that they may be a scourge to a sinful people? Ans. Any unclean spirit from Hell, could not speak a blacker lye, we hold that the King, by office, is the Churches nurse father, ⟨image 5⟩a sacred Ordinance, the deputed power of God; but by P. P. his way, all inferior Judges, and Gods Deputies on earth, who are also our fathers in the fifth Commandments stile, are to be obeyed by no Divine law; the King misled by P. Prelates, shall forbid to obey them, who is, in right-down truth, a mortal civill Pope, may loose and liberate subjects from the tie of a Divine law.