A92147:70
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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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⟩scandals, because they themselves do ill, they hate the light; now here the Prelate condemneth them of remissness in Discipline.
19. The leading men, that covered the sins of the dying man and so losed his soul, were Episcopall men: and though some of them were presbyterians, the faults of men cannot prejudice the truth of God; but the Prelates alwayes1 cry out against the rigor of Presbyteries, in censuring ⟨image 7⟩scandals, because they themselves do ill, they hate the light; now here the Prelate condemneth them of remissenesse in Discipline.
- 1Pa. 17, 18.
20. Satan, a liar from the beginning, saith, The Presbytery 1was a seminary and nursery of fiends, and contentions, & bloods: because they excommunicated murderers against King James his will: which is all one as to say. Prophesying is a nurse of bloods, because the Prophets cried out against King Ahab, and the murderers of innocent Naboth: the men of God must be either on the one side, or the other, or then preach against reciprocation of injuries.
20. Satan, a lier from the beginning, saith, The Presbyterie