A92147:92
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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41. This Assembly is to judge, what Doctrine is treasonable;1 what then? Surely the secret Council and King, in a constitute Church is not Synodically to determine what is true or false Doctrine, more then the Roman Emperor could make the Church Canon, Act. 15.
41. This Assembly is to judge, what Doctrine is treasonable;1 what then? Surely the secret Counsell and King, in a constitute Church is not Synodically to determine what is true or false Doctrine, more then the Roman Emperor could make the Church Canon, Act. 15.
- 1His lies of the general Assemblies of Scotland.His lies of the generall Assemblies of Scotland.
42. M. Gibson, M. Black, preached against King James his maintaining the Tyranny of Bishops, his sympathizing with Papists and other crying sins, and were absolved in a general Assembly, shall this make Presbyteries inconsistent with Monarchy? Nay, but it proveth only, that they are inconsistent with the wickedness of some Monarchies; and that Prelates have been like the four hundred false prophets that •lattered King Ahab; and these men that preached against the sins of the King, and Court, by Prelates in both Kingdoms, have been imprisoned, Banished, their Noses ripped, their che•ks burnt, their ears cut.
42. M. Gibson, M. Black, preached against King James his maintaining the Tyranny of Bishops, his sympathizing with Papists and other crying sins, and were absolved in a generall Assembly, shal this make Presbyteries inconsistent with Monarchie? Nay, but it proveth only, that they are inconsistent with the wickednesse of some Monarchies; and that Prelates have been like the four hundred false prophets that lattered King Achab; and these men that preached against the sins of the King, and Court, by Prelates in both Kingdomes, have been imprisoned, Banished, their Noses ript, their cheks burnt, their eares cut.