A92147:114
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. XI. Whether or no, he be more principally a King, who is a King by birth, or he who is a King by the free election of the people? Affir. posterius, pag. 79. The Elective King cometh nearer to the first King. Deut. 17. pag. 80. If the people may limit the King, they give him the power. ibid. A Community have not power formally to punish themselves. pag. 81. The Hereditary and the elective Prince in divers considerations better, or worse, each one then another. pag. 82.
QUEST. XI. Whether or no, he be more principally a King, who is a King by birth, or he who is a King by the free election of the people? Affir. posterius, pag. 79. The Elective King commeth nearer to the first King. Deut. 17. pag. 80. If the people may limit the King, they give him the power. ibid. A Community have not power formally to punish themselves. pag. 81. The Hereditary and the elective Prince in divers considerations better, or worse, each one then another. pag. 82.
QUEST. XII. Whether or no a Kingdom may lawfully be purchased by the sole Title of Conquest. Negatur. pag. 82. 7. Argu. for the negat. a twofold right of conquest. ibid. Conquest turned in an after-consent of the people, becometh a just title. pag. 83. Conquest not a signification to us of Gods approving will. pag. 84. Mere violent domineering contrary to the acts of governing. ibid. […] ⟨image 13⟩[…]⟨image 13⟩ ⟨image 14⟩Violence hath nothing in it of a King. ibid. A bloody Conqueror not a blessing, per se, as a King is, pag. 85. Strength as prevailing is not Law or reason. pag. 86 Fathers cannot dispone of the liberty of posterity not borne. ibid. A father as a father hath not power of life and death. pag. 87. Israels and Davids Conquests of the Canaanites, Edomites, Ammonites not lawful, because conquest, but upon a Divine title of Gods promise. pag. 88. 89.