A92147:104
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. I. Whether Government be by a divine Law? Affirmed, Pag. 1. How Government is from God, Ibid. Civill Power in the Root, immediately from God, Pag. 2.
QUEST. I. VVHether Government be by a divine Law? Affirmed, Pag. 1. How Government is from God, Ibid. Civill Power in the Root, immediately from God, Pag. 2.
QUEST. II. Whether or no Government be warranted by the Law of nature? Affirmed, Ibid. Civil society natural in radice, in the root, voluntary, in modo, in the manner, Ibid. Power of Government, and Power of Government, by such and such Magistrates, different, Pag. 2, 3. Civil subjection not formally from natures Law, Pag. 3. Our consent to Laws penal, not antecedently natural, Ibid. Government by such Rulers, a secondary Law of nature, Ibid. Family Government and politic, different, Ibid. Government by Rulers, a secondary Law of nature; Family Government, and Civil, different, Pag. 4. Civil Government by consequent, natural, Pag. 5.
QUEST. II. Whether or no Goverment be warranted by the Law of nature? Affirmed, Ibid. Civil societie naturall in radice, in the root, voluntary, in modo, in the manner, Ibid. Power of Government, and Power of Government, by such and such Magistrates, different, Pag. 2, 3. Civil subjection not formally from natures Law, Pag. 3. Our consent to Laws penal, not antecedently naturall, Ibid. Government by such Rulers, a secondary Law of nature, Ibid. Family Government and politike, different, Ibid. Government by Rulers, a secondary Law of nature; Family Government, and Civil, different, Pag. 4. Civil Government by consequent, naturall, Pag. 5.
QUEST. III. Whether Royal Power, and definite Forms of Government be from God? Affirmed, Ibid. That Kings are from God, understood in a fourfold sense, Pag. 5, 6. The Royal Power hath warrant from divine institution, Pag. 6. The three forms of Government, not different in species and nature, P. 8. How every form is from God, Ibid. How Government is an ordinance of man, 1 Pet 2. 13. Pag. 8, 9.