A92147:84
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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33. They may swear a Covenant without the King, if he refuse; and Build the Lords House, 2 Chron. 15. 9. themselves: and relieve and defend one another, when they are oppressed. For my acts and duties of defending my self and the oppressed, do not tie my conscience conditionally, so the King consent, but absolutely, as all duties of the Law of nature do, Jer. 22. 3. Prov. 24. 11. Esa. 58. 6. Esa. 1. 17.
33. They may swear a Covenant without the King, if he refuse; and Build the Lords House, 2 Chron. 15. 9. themselves: and relieve and defend one another, when they are oppressed. For my acts and duties of defending my self and the oppressed, do not tye my conscience conditionally, so the King consent, but absolutely, as all duties of the Law of nature doe, Jer. 22. 3. Prov. 24. 11. Esa. 58. 6. Esa. 1. 17.
34. The P. P. condemneth our Reformation, because it was done against the will of our Popish Queen. This showeth what estimation he hath of Popery, and how he abhorreth Protestant Religion.
34. The P. P. condemneth our Reformation, because it was done against the will of our Popish Queen. This sheweth what estimation he hath of Popery, and how he abhorreth Protestant Religion.