A92147:163
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. III. Whether Royal Power and definite forms of Government be from God?
QUEST. III. Whether Royall Power and definite forms of Government be from God?
The King may be said to be from God and his word in these several notions. 1. By way of permission, Jer. 43. 10. Say to them, thus 1saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Behold I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid, and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. And thus God made him a Catholic King, and gave him all Nations to serve him, Jer. 27. 6, 7, 8. though he was but an unjust Tyrant, and his sword the best title to those crowns.
THe King may be said to be from God and his word in these seveall notions. 1. By way of permission, Ier. 43. 10. Say to them, thus 1saith the Lord of hoasts the God of Israel, Behold I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid, and he shall spread his royall pavilion over them. And thus God made him a Catholick King, and gave him all Nations to serve him, Jer. 27. 6, 7, 8. though he was but an unjust Tyrant, and his sword the best title to those crownes.
- 1The King from God, understood in a fourfold sense.