A92147:61
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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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.
- 110, 11.
11. That the presbytery out of pride refused to answer King 1James his Honourable messengers, is a lye, they could not in business of high concernment, return a present answer to a Prince, seeking still to abolish Presbyteries.
11. That the presbytery out of pride refused to answer King 1James his Honourable messengers, is a lye, they could not in businesse of high concernment, return a present answer to a Prince, seeking still to abolish Presbyteries.
- 1Pag. 11.
12. Its a lye, that all sins, even all civil business, come under the cognizance of the Church, for only sins, as publicly scandalous, fall under their power,