A92147:106
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. 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.
QUEST. III. Whether Royall 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 Royall Power hath warrant from divine institution, Pag. 6. The three forms of Government, not different in spece 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.
QUEST. IV. Whether or no, the King be only and immediately from God, and not from the people? Prius distinguitur, posterius pr•rsus Negatur, pag. 5. How the King is from God, how from the people, Ibid. Royal Power three ways in the people, P. 6, 10. How Royal Power is radically in the people, P. 7. The people maketh the King, Ibid. How any form of Government is from God, P. 8. How Government is a humane ordinance, 1 Pet. 2. 3. P. 8, 9. The people create the King, P. 10, 11. Making a King, and choosing a King, not to be distinguished, P. 12, 13. David not a King formally, because anointed by God, P. 14, 15.
QUEST. IV. Whether or no, the King be onely and immediately from God, and not from the people? Prius distinguitur, posterius pr•rsus Negatur, pag. 5. How the King is from God, how from the people, Ibid. Royall Power three wayes in the people, P. 6, 10. How Royall Power is radically in the people, P. 7. The people maketh the King, Ibid. How any form of Government is from God, P. 8. How Government is a humane ordinance,