A92147:716
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In the last Chapter, the Prelate hath no reasons, only he would1 have Kings holy, and this he proveth from Apocrypha Books, because he is ebb in holy Scripture; but it is Romish holiness, as is clear.
In the last Chapter, the Prelate hath no reasons, onely he would1 have Kings holy, and this he proveth from Apocrypha Books, because he is ebbe in holy Scripture; but it is Romish holinesse, as is cleer.
- 1Sac. sanc. maj. cap. 16.
2. He must preach something to himself, that the King adore a tree-Altar. Thus Kings must be most reverend in their gestures, pag. 182.
3. The King must hazard his sacred life and three Kingdoms, his Crown, Royal posterity, to preserve sacred things, that is, Antichristian Romish Idols, Images, Altars, Ceremonies, Idolatry, Popery.
3. The King must hazard his sacred life and three Kingdoms, his Crown, Royall posterity, to preserve sacred things, that is, Antichristian Romish Idols, Images, Altars, Ceremonies, Idolatry, Popery.