A92147:60
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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9. That the King must submit his Sceptre to the Presbytery; the Kings Sceptre is his Royal office, which is not subject to any judicature, no more then any lawful ordinance of1 Christ; but if the King as a man, blaspheme God, murder the innocent, advance Belly-gods, (such as our Prelates for the most part were) above the Lords inheritance, the Ministers of Christ are to say, The King troubleth Israel, and they have the keys to open and shut heaven to, and upon the King, if he can offend.
9. That the King must submit his Scepter to the Presbytery; the Kings Scepter is his Royal office, which is not subject to any judicature, no more then any lawfull ordinance of1 Christ; but if the King as a man, blaspheme God, murther the innocent, advance Belly-gods, (such as our Prelates for the most part were) above the Lords inheritance, the Ministers of Christ are to say, The King troubleth Jsraell, and they have the keyes to open and shut heaven to, and upon the King, if he can offend.
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10. That King James said, a Scottish Presbytery, and a 1Monarchy, agreeth as well as God and the Devil, is true, but King James meant of a wicked King; else he spake as a man.
10. That King James said, a Scottish Presbytery, and a 1Monarchy, agreeth as well as God and the Devill, is true, but King James meant of a wicked King; else he spake as a man.
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