A92147:62
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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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, Mat. 18. 15, 16, 17. &c. 2 Thess. 3. 11. 1 Tim. 5. 20. It is a calumny that they search out secret crimes, or that ever they disgraced the innocent, or divided families, where there be flagrant scandals, and pregnant suspicions; of scandalous crimes, they search out these, as the incest of Spotswood, P. P. of Saint Andrews, with his own daughter; the adulteries of Whiteford, P. P. of Brichen, whose Bastard came weeping to the Assembly of Glasgow in the arms of1 the whore: these they searched out, but not with the damnable oath ex officio, that the High Commission put upon innocents, to cause them accuse themselves, against the Law of nature.
12. Its a lye, that all sins, even all civil businesse, come under the cognizance of the Church, for only sins, as publikely scandalous, fall under their power,