A92147:179
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
therefore after King Saul, by that victory over the Ammonites, had conquered the affections of all the people fully, v. 10, 11. Samuel would have his coronation & election by the Estates of Parliament renewed, at Gilgall, by all the people, v. 14, 15. to establish him King. 2. The Lord by Lots found out the Tribe of Benjamin. 3. The Lord found out the man, by name, Saul the son of Kish, when he did hide himself amongst the stuff, that the people might do their part in creating of the King, whereas Samuel had anointed him before; but the Text saith expressly that the people made Saul King, and Calvin, Martyr, Lavater, and Popish Writers, as Serrarius, Mendoza, Sancheiz, Cornelius a Lapide, Lyranus, Hugo Cardinalis, Carthusius, Sanctius, do all hence conclude that the people under God, make the King.
therefore after King Saul, by that victory over the Ammonites, had conquered the affections of all the people fully, v. 10, 11. Samuel would have his coronation & election by the Estates of Parliament renewed, at Gilgall, by all the people, v. 14, 15. to establish him King. 2. The Lord by Lots found out the Tribe of Benjamin. 3. The Lord found out the man, by name, Saul the sonne of Kish, when he did hide himselfe amongst the stuffe, that the people might doe their part in creating of the King, whereas Samuel had annoynted him before; but the Text saith expresly that the people made Saul King, and Calvin, Martyr, Lavater, and Popish Writers, as Serrarius, Mendoza, Sancheiz, Cornelius a Lapide, Lyranus, Hugo Cardinalis, Carthusius, Sanctius, doe all hence conclude that the people under God, make the King.
I see no reason why bBarclaius should here distinguish a power of choosing a King, which he granteth the people hath, and a power of making a King, which he saith is only proper to God. Answ. Choosing of a King, is either a comparative crowning of this man, not this2 man; and if the people have this, its a creating of a King under God, who principally disposeth of Kings and Kingdoms: and this is enough for us. The want of this, made Zimri no King: and those whom the Rulers of Jezreel at Samaria,