A92147:590
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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Answ. The Prelate may remember a Country Proverb. He and his Prelates, called the Church, (the scum of men, not the Church) are like the Tinkers dogs, they like good company, they must be ranked with the King. And 2. Here a false Prophet, It shall never ⟨p. 205⟩be well with the Land, while Arbitrary power, and Popery be erected, saith he, in good sense.
Answ. The Prelate may remember a Countrey Proverb. He and his Prelates, called the Church, (the scum of men, not the Church) are like the Tinkers dogs, they like good company, they must be ranked with the King. And 2. Here a false Prophet, It shall never ⟨p. 205⟩be well with the Land, while Arbitrary power, and Popery be erected, saith he, in good sense.
P. Prelate. The King hath his right from God, and cannot make it1 away to the people. Render to Caesar, the things that are Caesars. Kings persons, their Charge, their Right, their Authority, their Prerogative are by Scriptures, Fathers, Jurists, Sacred, inseparable Ordinances inherent in their Crowns, they cannot be made away; and when they are given to inferior Judges, it is not ad minuendam majestatem, sed solicitudinem, to lessen Sovereign Majesty, but to case them.
P. Prelate. The King hath his right from God, and cannot make it1 away to the people. Render to Caesar, the things that are Caesars. Kings persons, their Charge, their Right, their Authority, their Prerogative are by Scriptures, Fathers, Iurists, Sacred, inseparable Ordinances inherent in their Crowns, they cannot be made away; and when they are given to inferiour Judges, it is not ad minuendam majestatem, sed solicitudinem, to lessen Soveraign Majesty, but to case them.