A92147:1004
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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Answ. If we denied God to dispose of Kingdoms, this man might allege the Church of God in England and Scotland, to be the sons of Satan. But Gods Word, Deut. 17. 18. and many other places make the people to make Kings, and yet not devils. But to say that Prelates should crown Kings, and with their foul fingers anoint him; and that as the Popes substitutes, is to make him that is the son of perdition, a Donor of Kingdoms, also to make a man with his bloody sword to ascend to a throne, is to deny God to be the disposer of Kingdoms, and Prelates teach both these.
Answ. If we denyed God to dispose of Kingdomes, this man might alledge the Church of God in England and Scotland, to be the sons of Satan. But Gods Word, Deut. 17. 18. and many other places make the people to make Kings, and yet not devils. But to say that Prelates should crowne Kings, and with their foule fingers anoint him; and that as the Popes substitutes, is to make him that is the sonne of perdition, a Donor of Kingdoms, also to make a man with his bloodie sword to ascend to a throne, is to deny God to be the disposer of Kingdoms, and Prelats teach both these.
Obj. 3. Tertul. Apol. c. 30. Inde est Imperator, unde & homo, antequam imperator, inde potestas illi, unde & spiritus: God is no less the Creator of Sovereignty, then of the soul of man.
Obj. 3. Tertul. Apol. c. 30. Inde est Imperator, unde & homo, antequam imperator, inde potestas illi, unde & spiritus: God is no lesse the Creator of Soveraigntie, then of the soul of man.
Answ. God only maketh Kings, by his absolute sovereignty, as he only maketh high and low, and so only he maketh Mayors, Provosts, Bailiffs, for there is no power but of him,