A92147:71
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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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 1was a seminary and nursery of fiends, and contentions, & bloods: because they excommunicated murtherers against King James his will: which is all one as to say. Prophecying is a nurse of bloods, because the Prophets cryed out against King Achab, and the murtherers of innocent Naboth: the men of God must be either on the one side, or the other, or then preach against reciprocation of injuries.
- 1Pag. 18.
21. It is false, that Presbyteries usurp both swords: because they censure sins, which the civill Magistrate should censure and punish. Elijah might be said then to mix himself with the civill business of the Kingdom, because he prophesied against Idolaters killing of the Lords Prophets, which crime the civill Magistrate was to punish. But the truth is, the Assembly of Glasgow, 1637. condemned the Prelates, because they being Pastors, would be also Lords of Parliament, of Session, of Secret Council, of Exchequer, Judges, Barons, and in their lawless High Commission, would Fine, Imprison, and use the sword.
21. It is false, that Presbyteries usurp both swords: because they censure sins, which the civill Magistrate should censure and punish. Elias might be said then to mix himselfe with the civill businesse of the Kingdom, because he prophecied against Idolators killing of the Lords Prophets, which crime the civill Magistrate was to punish. But the truth is, the Assembly of Glasgow, 1637. condemned the Prelates, because they being Pastors, would be also Lords of Parliament, of Session, of Secret Counsell, of Exchequer, Judges, Barons, and in their lawlesse High Commission, would Fine, Imprison, and use the sword.