A92147:74
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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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⟩rout, should be Anti-Monarchiall in a higher manner, for he ruleth all at his will.
24. The prime men, as Mr. R. Bruce the faithful servant of Christ, was honoured and attended by all, because of his Suffering, Zeal, Holiness, his fruitful Ministry in gaining many thousand souls to Christ: So, though King James cast him off, and did swear, By Gods name he intended to be King, (the Prelate maketh Blasphemy a virtue in the King) yet King James sware he could not find an honest Minister in Scotland to be a Bishop, and therefore he was necessitated to promote false knaves; but he said sometimes, and wrote it under his hand, that Mr. R. Bruce was worthy of the half of his kingdom: but will this prove Presbyteries inconsistent with Monarchies? I should rather think, that Knave Bishops, by King James his judgement, were inconsistent with Monarchies.
24. The prime men, as Mr. R. Bruce the faithfull servant of Christ, was honoured and attended by all, because of his Suffering, Zeal, Holinesse, his fruitfull Ministery in gaining many thousand souls to Christ: So, though King James cast him off, and did swear, By Gods name he intended to be King, (the Prelate maketh Blasphemy a vertue in the King) yet King James sware he could not find an honest Minister in Scotland to be a Bishop, and therefore he was necessitated to promote false knaves; but he said sometimes, and wrote it under his hand, that Mr. R. Bruce was worthy of the half of his kingdom: but will this prove Presbyteries inconsistent with Monarchies? I should rather think, that Knave Bishops, by King James his judgement, were inconsistent with Monarchies.