A92147:1175
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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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 naturally1 in the multitude, from it derived to the King, immediatly from God. The reason of which order is, because we cannot reape the fruites of government, unlesse by compact we submit to some possible and accidentall inconveniences.
- 1Sac. sanc. Mai. c. 1. p. 17, 18.
Ans. 1. Who speaketh so the P. Prelate cannot name. That Sovereign power is primarily and naturally in the multitude. Virtually (it may be) Sovereignty is in the multitude, but primarily and naturally, as heat is in the fire, light in the Sun; I think the P. Prelate dreamed it, no man said it but himself: for what attribute is naturally in a Subject, I conceive may directly and naturally be predicated thereof. Now the P. Prelate hath taught us of a very natural predication. (Our Dreadful and Sovereign Lord the multitude commandeth this and this.)
Ans. 1. Who speaketh so the P. Prelate cannot name. That Soveraigne power is primarily and naturally in the multitude. Vertually (it may be) Soveraignty is in the multitude, but primarily and naturally, as heat is in the fire, light in the Sun; I thinke the P. Prelate dreamed it, no man said it but himselfe: for what attribute is naturally in a Subject, I conceive may directly and naturally be predicated thereof. Now the P. Prelate hath taught us of a very naturall predication. (Our Dreadful and Soveraign Lord the multitude commandeth this and this.)