A92147:1065
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Lex, Rex. › Question 38: QUEST. XXXVIII. Whether Monarchy be the best of governments?
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Object. 1. There is more power, terror, and love in one, then in many.
Object. 1. There is more power, terrour, and love in one, then in many.
Answ. Not more power, 2. terror cometh from sin, and so to nature fallen in sin, in circumstances a Monarchy is best.
Answ. Not more power, 2. terrour cometh from sin, and so to nature fallen in sin, in circumstances a Monarchy is best.
Object. 2. It is more convenient to nature, that one should be Lord then many.
Answ. To sinless nature, true, as in a father to many children.
Answ. To sinlesse nature, true, as in a father to many children.