A92147:507
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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when Tyrannous Athalia reigneth, they convene and make Joash King, and that without any King. And Josh. 22. there is a Parliament convened, and, for any thing we can read, without Joshua, to take cognisance of a new Altar. It had been good that the Parliaments both of Scotland, and of England, had convened, though the King had not indicted and summoned a Parliament; without the King, to take order with the wicked Clergy, who had made many idolatrous Altars: And the P. Prelate should have brought an argument to prove it unlawful, in foro Dei, to set up the Tables and Conventions in our Kingdom, when the Prelates were bringing in the grossest idolatry into the Church, a service for adoring of Altars, of Bread, the work of the hand of the Baker; a God more corruptible1 then any god of silver and gold.
when Tyrannous Athalia reigneth, they conveene and make Ioash King, and that without any King. And Iosh. 22. there is a Parliament conveened, and, for any thing we can read, without Ioshua, to take cognisance of a new Altar. It had been good that the Parliaments both of Scotland, and of England, had conveened, though the King had not indicted and summoned a Parliament; without the King, to take order with the wicked Clergie, who had made many idolatrous Altars: And the P. Prelate should have brought an argument to prove it unlawfull, in foro Dei, to set up the Tables and Conventions in our Kingdome, when the Prelates were bringing in the grossest idolatrie into the Church, a service for adoring of Altars, of Bread, the worke of the hand of the Baker; a God more corruptible1 then any god of silver and gold.
- 1Tables in Scotland lawful.Tables in Scotland lawfull.