A92147:1174
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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The P. Prelate having shown his mind concerning the deposing of Childericke by the Pope (of which I say nothing, but the Pope was an Antichristian Usurper, and the poor man never fit to bear a Crown) he goeth on to set down an opinion of some mute Authors, he might devise a thousand opinions that way, to make men believe he had been in a wood of learned mens secrets, and that never man saw the bottom of the controversy, while he, seeing the escapes of many Pens (as supercilious Bubo praiseth) was forced to appear a Star new risen in the firmament of Pursuivants, and reveal all dreams, and teach all the New-Statists, the Gam•liels, Buchanan, Junius Brutus, and a world who were all sleeping, while this Lucifer the son of the night did appear, this new way of Laws, Divinity and casuists Theology.
The P. Prelate having shewn his mind concerning the deposing of Childericke by the Pope (of which I say nothing, but the Pope was an Antichristian Usurper, and the poore man never fit to beare a Crowne) he goeth on to set downe an opinion of some mute Authors, he might devise a thousand opinions that way, to make men beleeve he had been in a wood of learned mens secrets, and that never man saw the bottome of the controversie, while he, seeing the escapes of many Pens (as supercilious Bubo praiseth) was forced to appeare a Star new risen in the firmament of Pursevants, and reveale all dreames, and teach all the New-Statists, the Gam•liels, Buchanan, Iunius Brutus, and a world who were all sleeping, while this Lucifer the sonne of the night did appeare, this new way of Lawes, Divinity and casuists Theologie.
They hold (saith P. P.) Sovereign power is primarily and naturally1 in the multitude, from it derived to the King, immediately from God. The reason of which order is, because we cannot reap the fruits of government, unless by compact we submit to some possible and accidental inconveniences.
They hold (saith P. P.) Soveraigne power is primarily and naturally