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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. 4. Whether Nature hath determined, that there should be one supreme Ruler a King, or many Rulers in a free Community? Answ. It is denied.
Quest. 4. Whether Nature hath determined, that there should be one supreme Ruler a King, or many Rulers in a free Commnitie? Answ. It is denyed.
Quest. 6. Whether every free Commonwealth hath not in it a supremacy of Majesty, which it may formally place in one, or many?] Answ. It is affirmed.
Quest. 6. Whether every free Commonwealth hath not in it a supremacie of Majestie, which it may formally place in one, or many?] Answ. It is affirmed.
Quest. 6. Whether absolute and unlimited power of Royalty, be a ray and beam of Divine Majesty, immediately derived from God?] Answ. Not at all: Such a creature is not in the world of Gods creation: Royalists, and flatterers of Kings, are parents to this prodigious birth. There is no shadow of power, to do ill, in God: An absolute power is, essentially, a power to do without or above Law, and a power to do ill, to destroy: and so it cannot come from God, as a Moral power, by institution; though it come from God by a ⟨p. 456⟩flux of permissive providence: but so things unlawful and sinful come from God.
Quest. 6. Whether absolute and unlimited power of Royaltie, be a ray and beame of Divine Majestie, immediately derived from God?] Answ. Not at all: Such a creature is not in the world of Gods creation: Royalists, and flatterers of Kings, are parents to this prodigious birth. There is no shadow of power, to doe ill, in God: An absolute power is, essentially, a power to do without or above Law, and a power to doe ill, to destroy: and so it cannot come from God, as a Morall power, by institution; though it come from God by a