A92147:165
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. The King is said to be from God, by way of naked approbation. God giving to a people power to appoint what Government they shall think good, but instituting none in special, in his Word. This way some make Kingly power to be from God in the general, ⟨p. 6⟩but in the particular to be an invention of men, negatively lawful, and not repugnant to the Word; as the wretched Popish ceremonies are from God. But we teach no such thing: let iMaxwell free his Master kBellarmine and other Jesuits, with whom he sideth in Romish Doctrine: we are free of this. Bellarmine saith that politic power in general is warranted by a Divine law; but the particular forms of politic power, he meaneth Monarchy, with the first, is not by Divine right, but de jure gentium, by the law of nations, and floweth immediately from humane election, as all things, saith he, that appertain to the law of Nations. So Monarchy to Bellarmine is but an humane invention, as Mr. Maxwell his Surplice is: and D. Ferne, sect. 3. p. 13. saith with Bellarmine.
2. The King is said to be from God, by way of naked approbation. God giving to a people power to appoint what Government they shall thinke good, but instituting none in speciall, in his Word. This way some make Kingly power to be from God in the generall, ⟨p. 6⟩but in the particular to be an invention of men, negatively lawfull, and not repugnant to the Word; as the wretched Popish ceremonies are from God. But we teach no such thing: let iMaxwell free his Master kBellarmine and other Iesuites, with whom he sideth in Romish Doctrine: we are free of this. Bellarmine saith that politick power in generall is warranted by a Divine law; but the particular formes of politick power, he meaneth Monarchie, with the first, is not by Divine right, but de jure gentium, by the law of nations, and floweth immediately from humane election, as all things, saith he, that appertein to the law of Nations. So Monarchie to Bellarmine is but an humane invention, as Mr. Maxwell his Surplice is: and D. Ferne, sect. 3. p. 13. saith with Bellarmine.