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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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Lex, Rex. › Question 2: QUEST. II. Whether or not, Government be warranted by the Law of nature.
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QUEST. II. Whether or not, Government be warranted by the Law of nature.
AS domestic society is by natures instinct, so is civill society natural, in radice, in the root, and voluntary, in modo, in the manner of coalescing. Politic power of Government, agreeth not to man, singly, as one man, except in that root of reasonable nature; but supposing that men be combined in societies, or that one family cannot contain a society, it is natural, that they join in a civill society, though the manner of Union in a politic body; as dBodine saith, be voluntary, Gen. 10. 10. Gen. 15. 7. and eSuarez saith, That a power of making Laws, is given by God as a property flowing from nature, Qui dat formam, dat consequentia ad formam, Not by any special action or grant, different from creation, nor will he have it to result from nature, while men be united into one politic body: which Union being made, that power followeth without any new action of the will,
AS domestick societie is by natures instinct, so is civill societie naturall, in radice, in the root, and voluntary, in modo, in the manner of coalescing. Politick power of Government, agreeth not to man, singly, as one man, except in that root of reasonable nature; but supposing that men be combined in societies, or that one family cannot contain a societie, it is naturall, that they joyn in a civill societie, though the manner of Union in a politick body; as dBodine saith, be voluntary, Gen. 10. 10. Gen. 15. 7