A92147:198
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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Answ. 1. The Jesuits are the Prelates brethren, they are under one Banner, we are in contrary Camps to Jesuits. 2. The Prelate said himself, Pag. 19. Moses, Saul, and David, were by extraordinary revelation from God; sure I am, Kings are not so now. The Jews had this privilege, that no nation had. 1. God named some Kings to them, as Saul, David, he doth not so now. 2. God did tie Royalty to Davids house by a Covenant, till Christ should come, he doth not so now. Yet we stand to Deut. 17.
Answ. 1. The Jesuites are the Prelates brethren, they are under one Banner, we are in contrary Camps to Iesuites. 2. The Prelate said himself, Pag. 19. Moses, Saul, and David, were by extraordinary revelation from God; sure I am, Kings are not so now. The Jews had this priviledge, that no nation had. 1. God named some Kings to them, as Saul, David, he doth not so now. 2. God did tie Royaltie to Davids house by a Covenant, till Christ should come, he doth not so now. Yet we stand to Deut. 17.
P. Prelate. Prov. 8. 15. By me Kings reign. If the people had1 right to constitute a King, it had not been King Solomon, but King Adonijah. Solomon saith not of himself, but indefinitely (By me) as by the Author, efficient, and constituent, Kings reign. (Per) is by Christ, not by the people, not by the high Priest, State, or Presbytery, not Per me iratum, by me in my anger, as some Sectaries say. Pauls [Greek or Hebrew], an Ordinance by high Authority not revocable: So Sinesius useth the word, Aristotle, Lucilius, Appian, Plutarch, [Greek or Hebrew] in me, and by me, as Doctor Andrews. Kings indefinitely, all Kings: none may distinguish where the Law distinguisheth not, they reign in concreto: that same power that maketh Kings, must unmake them.