A92147:69
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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18. •f any sell the Patrimony of the Church, the Presbytery censures him; if any take buds of Malt, Meal, 1Beef, it is no law with us, no more then the Bishops five hundred marks, or a years stipend that the intrant gave to the Lord Bishop for a church. And who ever took buds in these days, (as King James by the Earl of Dumbar, did buy Episcopacy at a pretended Assembly, by foul budding) they were either men for the Episcopal way, or perfidiously against their oath became Bishops, all personal faults of this kind, imputed to Presbyters, agree to them, under the reduplication of Episcopal men.
18. •f any sell the Patrimony of the Church, the Presbytery censures him; if any take buds of Malt, Meale, 1Be•ffe, it is no law with us, no more then the Bishops five hundred markes, or a yeares stipend that the intrant gave to the Lord Bishop for a church. And who ever took buds in these dayes, (as King James by the Earl of Dumbar, did buy Episcopacie at a pretended Assembly, by foule budding) they were either men for the Episcopall way, or perfidiously against their oath became Bishops, all personall faults of this kind, imputed to Presbyters, agree to them, under the reduplication of Episcopall men.
- 1Pag. 18.
19. The leading men, that covered the sins of the dying man and so loosed his soul, were Episcopal men: and though some of them were presbyterians, the faults of men cannot prejudice the truth of God; but the Prelates always1 cry out against the rigour of Presbyteries, in censuring ⟨image 7⟩