A92147:88
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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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 ⟨image 9⟩twenty years, with fasting and praying, and frequent advice and counsel, from the whole Reformed Churches, are to the P. P. a negative faith, and devote imaginations; its a lye, that Episcopacy by both sides was ever agreed on by Law in Scotland.
38. The making away the fat Abbacies and Bishopricks, is a bloody Heresie to the earthly minded Prelate: the Confession of Faith commended, by all the Protestant Churches, as a strong bar against Popety, and the book of Discipline, in which the servants of God laboured ⟨image 9⟩twenty yeares, with fasting and praying, and frequent advice and counsell, from the whole Reformed Churches, are to the P. P. a negative faith, and devote imaginations; its a lye, that Episcopacie by both sides was ever agreed on by Law in Scotland.
39. And was it a heresy that M. Melvin taught, that Presbyter and Bishop are one function in Scripture? and that Abbots and Priors were not in Gods book? dic ubi legis: and is this a proof of inconsistency of Presbyteries with a Monarchy?