A92147:1356
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. 10. Whether is the Coronation of a King any other thing but a Ceremony?] Ans. In the Coronation there is, and may be, the1 Ceremony of a shout and an Acclamation, and the reaching of a Sceptre in his right hand who is made King; and the like: But the Coronation in concreto, according to the substance of the act, is no Ceremony, nor any accidental ingredient in the constitution of a King; 1. Because Israel should have performed a mere ceremonial action on Saul, when they made him King, which we cannot say: for as the Peoples act of Coronation is distinctive, so is it constitutive; it distinguished Saul from all Israel, and did constitute him in a new relation, that he was changed from no King, to be a King. 2. The people cannot by a Ceremony make a King; they must really put some honour on him, that was not on him before. Now this Ceremony which Royalists do fancy Coronation to be, is only symbolical and declarative, not really dative, it placeth nothing in the King.
Quest. 10. Whether is the Coronation of a King any other thing but a Ceremonie?] Ans. In the Coronation there is, and may be, the1 Ceremonie of a shout and an Acclamation, and the reaching of a Scepter in his right hand who is made King; and the like: But the Coronation in concreto, according to the substance of the act, is no Ceremonie, nor any accidentall ingredient in the constitution of a King; 1. Because Israel should have performed a meere ceremoniall action on Saul, when they made him King, which we cannot say: for as the Peoples act of Coronation is distinctive, so is it constitutive; it distinguished Saul from all Israel, and did constitute him in a new relation, that he was changed from no King, to be a King. 2. The people cannot by a Ceremonie make a King; they must really put some honour on him, that was not on him before. Now this Ceremonie which Royalists doe fancie Coronation to be, is only fymbolicall and declarative, not really dative, it placeth nothing in the King.
- 1The Coronation of the King, in concreto, is more then a Ceremony.The Coronation of the King, in concreto, is more then a Ceremonie.