A92147:94
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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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.
44. They excommunicate not for light faults and trifles as the Liar saith: our Discipline saith the contrary.
44. They excommunicate not for light faults and trifles as the Lyar saith: our Discipline saith the contrary.
45. This Assembly never took on them to chose the Kings Counsellors, but these who were in authority took K. James, when he was a child, out of the Company of a corrupt and seducing Papist, Esme Duke of Lennox, whom the P. P. nameth, Noble, Worthy, of eminent endowments.
45. This Assembly never took on them to chose the Kings Counsellours, but these who were in authority took K. James, when he was a child, out of the Company of a corrupt and seducing Papist, Esme Duke of Lennox, whom the P. P. nameth, Noble, Worthy, of eminent indowments.