A92147:73
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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22. It is his ignorance, that he saith, A provincial synod1 is an associate body chosen out of all judicial Presbyteries; for all Pastors, and Doctors, without delegation, by virtue of their place and office, repair to the Provincial Synods, and without any choice at all, consult and voice there.2
22. It is his ignorance, that he saith, A provinciall synod1 is an associate body chosen out of all judiciall Presbyteries; for all Pastors, and Doctors, without delegation, by vertue of their place and office, repaire to the Provinciall Synods, and without any choice at all, consult and voice there.2
- 1Pag. 19.
- 2Pag. 22.
23. It is a lye, That some Leading men rule all here; indeed Episcopal men made factions to rent the Synods: and though men abuse their power to factions, this cannot prove that Presbyteries are inconsistent with Monarchy; for then the Prelate, the Monarch of his Diocesan ⟨image 7⟩rout, should be Anti-Monarchial in a higher manner, for he ruleth all at his will.
23. It is a lye, That some Leading men rule all here; indeed Episcopall men made factions to rent the Synods: and though men abuse their power to factions, this cannot prove that Presbyteries are inconsistent with Monarchie; for then the Prelate, the Monarch of his Diocesian ⟨image 7⟩