A92147:108
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. V. Whether or no, the P. P. proveth, that Sovereignty is immediately from God, not from the people? p. 16. Kings made by the people, though the Office, in abstracto, wor• immediately from God, P. 16. The people have a real action, more then approbation in making a King, P. 19, Kinging of a person ascribed to the people, P. 20. Kings in a special manner, are from God, but it followeth not: Ergo, not from the people, P. 21. The place, Prov. 8. 15. proveth not, but Kings are made by the people. P. 22, 23. Nebuchadnezzar and other heathen Kings, had no just Title before God, to the Kingdom of Judah, and divers other subdued Kingdoms, P. 26, 27.
QUEST. V. Whether or no, the P. P. proveth, that Soveraignty is immediately from God, not from the people? p. 16. Kings made by the people, though the Office, in abstracto, wor• immediately from God, P. 16. The people have a reall action, more then approbation in making a King, P. 19, Kinging of a person ascribed to the people, P. 20. Kings in a speciall manner, are from God, but it followeth not: Ergo, not from the people, P. 21. The place, Prov. 8. 15. proveth not, but Kings are made by the people. P. 22, 23. Nebuchadnezzar and other heathen Kings, had no just Title before God, to the Kingdom of Judah, and divers other subdued Kingdoms, P. 26, 27.
QUEST. VI. Whether or no, the King be so allanerly from both in regard of Sovereignty and Designation of his person, as he is no ways from the people, but only by mere approbation? Negatur, pag. 28, 29. The Forms of Government, not from God by an act of naked Providence, but by his approving will, Ibid. ⟨image 11⟩Sovereignty not from the people by sole approbation, P. 29, 30. Though God have peculiar acts of providence in creating Kings, it followeth not hence, that the people maketh not Kings, P. 31. The P. Prelate, expoundeth prophecies true only of David, Solomon, and Jesus Christ, as true of profane heathen Kings, P. 34, 35. The P. P. maketh all the heathen Kings to be Princes, anointed with the holy Oil of saving grace, Ibid.