A92147:1182
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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2. So the P. Prelate maketh power to act all the former mischiefs, the essentials of a King▪ Balaam he is not worthy his wages, for Prophesying thus, that▪ the Kings essentials is a power of blood, and destructive to people, Law, Religion and liberties of Church and State, for otherwise we teach not, that people may resume from the King Authority and power to disarm Papists, to ⟨p. 421⟩root out the bloody Irish, and in justice serve them, as they have served us.
2. So the P. Prelate maketh power to act all the former mischiefes, the essentialls of a King▪ Balaam he is not worthy his wages, for Prophecying thus, that▪ the Kings essentialls is a power of blood, and destructive to people, Law, Religion and liberties of Church and State, for otherwise we teach not, that people may resume from the King Authority and power to disarme Papists, to ⟨p. 421⟩roote out the bloody Irish, and in justice serve them, as they have served us.
3. This ordinance of the people giving lawful power to a King, for the governing of the people in peace and godliness, is Gods good pleasure, and hath just reasons and causes. But that the people make over a power to one man, to act all the inconveniences above named, I mean the bloody and destructive inconveniences, hath nothing of God, or reason in it.
3. This ordinance of the people giving lawfull power to a King, for the governing of the people in peace and godlinesse, is Gods good pleasure, and hath just reasons and causes. But that the people make over a power to one man, to act all the inconveniences above named, I mean the bloody and destructive inconveniences, hath nothing of God, or reason in it.