A92147:216
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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he made him sit in the chief place, and honoured him as king, when as yet Samuel was materially King, and the Lords Vicegerent in Israel. If then the Prelate conclude any thing from Samuel his doing reverence and obeisance to him as King, it shall follow that Saul was formally King, before Samuel, 1 Sam. 10. 1. anointed him, and kissed him; and that must be before he ⟨p. 32⟩he was formally King, otherwise he was in Gods appointment King, before ever he saw Samuel's face; and it is true, he ascribeth honour to him, as to one appointed by God to be supreme Sovereign, for that which he should be, not for that which he was, as c. 9. 22. he set him in the chiefest place, and therefore it is false, that we have Sauls election and constitution to be King, 1 Sam. 10. for after that time the people are rebuked for seeking a King, and that with a purpose to dissuade them from it, as a sinful desire, and he is chosen by Lots after that, and made King, & after Samuel's anointing of him, he was a private, man, and did hide himself amongst the stuff, v. 22. 3. The Prelate if of ignorance, or wilfully I know not, saith, the expression and phrase is the same, 1 Sam. 12. 13. and Ps. 2. 6. which is false; for 1 Sam. 12. 13. it is [Greek or Hebrew] behold the Lord hath given you a King, such is the expression, Hos. 13. 11. I gave them a King in my wrath; but that expression is not Psal. 2. 6. but this [Greek or Hebrew] but I have established him my King; and though it were the same expression, it followeth not that the people have not hand any other way in appointing Christ their head; (though that phrase also be in the word, Hos. 1. v. 11.) then by consenting,1