A92147:93
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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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 che•ks burnt, their eares cut.
43. The Godly men that kept the Assembly of Aberdeen, ⟨image 9⟩An. 1603. did stand for Christs Prerogative when K. James took away all general Assemblies, as the event proved; and the King may with as good warrant inhibit all Assemblies for Word and Sacraments, as for Church Discipline.
43. The Godly men that kept the Assembly of Aberdeen, ⟨image 9⟩An. 1603. did stand for Christs Prerogative when K. James took away all generall Assemblies, as the event proved; and the King may with as good warrant inhibit all Assemblies for Word and Sacraments, as for Church Discipline.