A92147:90
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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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?
39. And was it a heresie 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 Monarchie?
40 It is a heresy to the P. P. that the Church appoint a Fast, when King James appointed an unseasonable Feast, when Gods wrath was upon the Land, contrary to Gods word, Esa. 22. 12, 13, 14. and what, will this prove Presbyteries to be inconsistent with Monarchies?
40 It is a heresie to the P. P. that the Church appoynt a Fast, when King James appoynted an unseasonable Feast, when Gods wrath was upon the Land, contrary to Gods word, Esa. 22. 12, 13, 14. and what, will this prove Presbyteries to be inconsistent with Monarchies?