A92147:111
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. VIII. Whether or no, the P. Prelate proveth, by force of reason, That the people cannot be capable of any power of Government? Negatur, pag. 49, 50. In any community there is an active and passive power to Government, P. 50. Popular Government is not that wherein all the whole people are Governors, P. 53, 54. People by nature are equally indifferent to all the three Governments, and are under not any one by nature, P. 53. The P. Prelate, denieth the Pope his father to be the Antichrist, Ibid. The bad success of Kings chosen by people, proveth nothing against us, ⟨image 12⟩because Kings chosen by God, had bad success through their own wickedness, P. 54, 55. The P. Prelate condemneth King Charles his ratifying, Parl. 2. An. 1641. The whole proceedings of Scotland in this present Reformation, P. 56. That there be any supreme Judges, is an eminent act of divine providence, which hindereth not, but that the King is made by the people, P. 57. The people not patients in making a King, as is water in the Sacrament of Baptism, in the Act of production of grace, P. 58.
QUEST. VIII. Whether or no, the P. Prelate proveth, by force of reason, That the people cannot be capable of any power of Goverment? Negatur, pag. 49, 50. In any communitie there is an active and passive power to Government, P. 50. Popular Government is not that wherein all the whole people are Governours, P. 53, 54. People by nature are equally indifferent to all the three Governments, and are under not any one by nature, P. 53. The P. Prelate, denyeth the Pope his father to be the Antichrist, Ibid. The bad successe of Kings chosen by people, proveth nothing against us, ⟨image 12⟩because Kings chosen by God, had bad successe through their own wickednesse, P. 54, 55. The P. Prelate condemneth King Charls his ratifying, Parl. 2. An. 1641. The whole proceedings of Scotland in this present Reformation, P. 56. That there be any supreme Judges, is an eminent act of divine providence, which hindereth not, but that the King is made by the people, P. 57. The people not patients in making a King, as is water in the Sacrament of Baptisme, in the Act of production of grace, P. 58.