A92147:86
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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35. They deposed the Queen for Her Tyranny, but Crowned her Son; all this is vindicated in the following Treatise.
36. The killing of the monstrous and prodigious wicked Cardinal in the Castle of St. Andrews, and the violence done to the Prelates, who against all Law of God and man obtruded a Mass service upon their own private motion, in Edinburgh An. 1637. can conclude nothing against Presbyterial Government, except our Doctrine commend these acts as lawful.
36. The killing of the monstrous and prodigious wicked Cardinall in the Castle of St. Andrews, and the violence done to the Prelates, who against all Law of God and man obtruded a Masse service upon their own private motion, in Edinbrough An. 1637. can conclude nothing against Presbyteriall Government, except our Doctrine commend these acts as lawfull.
37. What was preached by the servant of Christ, whom p. 46. he calleth the Scottish Pope, is Printed, and the P. P. durst not, could not, cite any thing thereof as Popish or unsound, he knoweth that the man whom he so slandereth, knocked down the Pope and the Prelates.
38. The making away the fat Abbacies and Bishoprics, is a bloody Heresy to the earthly minded Prelate: the Confession of Faith commended, by all the Protestant Churches, as a strong bar against Popery, and the book of Discipline, in which the servants of God laboured