A92147:76
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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25. His lies of Mr. R. Bruce, excerpted out of the lying Manuscript of Apostate Spotswood, in that he would not but preach against the Kings recalling from exile some Bloody Popish Lords, to undo all, are nothing comparable to the Incests, Adulteries, Blasphemies,1 Perjuries, Sabbath-breaches, Drunkenness, Profanity, &c. committed by Prelates before the Sun.
25. His lyes of Mr. R. Bruce, excerpted out of the lying Manuscript of Apostat Spotswood, in that he would not but preach against the Kings recalling from exile some Bloody Popish Lords, to undo all, are nothing comparable to the Incests, Adulteries, Blasphemies,1 Perjuries, Sabbath-breaches, Drunkennesse, Prophanity, &c. committed by Prelates before the Sun.
- 1P. 22, 23, 24.
27. They ought to have no negative vote, to impede the conclusions of Christ in his servants.