A92147:78
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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27. They ought to have no negative vote, to impede the conclusions of Christ in his servants.
28. It is a lye, that the King hath no power to appoint time and place for the General Assembly; but his power is not privative to destroy the free Courts of Christ, but accumulative to aid and assist them.
28. It is a lye, that the King hath no power to appoint time and place for the Generall Assembly; but his power is not privative to destroy the free Courts of Christ, but accumulative to ayd and assist them.
29. It is a lye, That our general Assembly may repeal ⟨image 8⟩Laws, command and expect performance of the King, or then excommunicate, subject to them, force & compel King, Judges, and all, to submit to them. They may not force the conscience of the poorest beggar, nor is any Assembly infallible, nor can it lay bounds upon souls of Judges, which they are to obey with blind obedience, their power is ministerial, subordinate to Christs Law; and what civill Laws Parliaments make against Gods word, they may Authoritatively declare them to be unlawful; as though the Emperor, Act. 15. had commanded Fornication and eating of blood, might not the Assembly forbid these in the Synod? I conceive the Prelates, if they had power, would repeal the Act of Parliament made, An. 1641. in Scotland, by his Majesty personally present, and the three Estates concerning the annulling of these Acts of Parliament, and Laws, which established Bishops in Scotland. Erg. Bishops set themselves as independent Monarchs, above Kings and Laws: and what they damn in Presbyteries and Assemblies, that they practise themselves.