A92147:999
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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QUEST. XXXV. Whether or no the suffering of the Martyrs in the Primitive Church militate against the lawfulness of defensive wars?
QUEST. XXXV. Whether or no the suffering of the Martyrs in the Primitive Church militate against the lawfulnesse of defensive wars?
Royalists think they burden our Cause much with hatred, when they bring the Fathers and ancient Martyrs against us. So the P. Prelate extracted out of other Authors, testimonies for this, and1 from I. Armagh, in a Sermon on Rom. 1. 3. pag. 20, 21. So the Do. of Aberdeen. The Prelate proveth from Clem. Alexand. l. 7. c. 17. That the King is constituted by the Lord. So Ignatius.
ROyalists think they burden our Cause much with hatred, when they bring the Fathers and ancient Martyrs against us. So the P. Prelate extracted out of other Authors, testimonies for this, and1 from I. Armagh, in a Sermon on Rom. 1. 3. pag. 20, 21. So the Do. of Aberdeene. The Prelat proveth from Clem. Alexand. l. 7. c. 17. That the King is constituted by the Lord. So Ignatius.
- 1Sacr. san••. 6. pag. 74, 75, 76. The Doctors of Aberdeen in their Duplyes.Sacr. san••. 6. pag. 74, 75, 76. The Doctors of Aberdeene in their Duplyes.