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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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P. Prelate. God only anointed David, 1 Sam. 16. 4. the men of Bethlehem, yea Samuel knew it not before. God saith, with mine holy oil have I anointed him, Ps. 89. 91. 1. He is the Lords anointed 12. The oil is Gods, not from the Apothecaries shop, nor the Priests Vial; this oil descended from the Holy Ghost▪ who is no less the true Olive, then Christ is the true Vine; yet not the oil of saving grace, as some Fantastics say, but holy, 1. From the Author God. 2. From influence in the person, it maketh the Person of the King sacred. 3. From influence on his charge, his function and power is sacred. Ans. 1. The Prelate said before Davids anointing was extraordinary; here he draweth this anointing to all Kings. 2. Let David be formally both constituted and designed King divers years before the States made him King at Hebron, and then 1. Saul was not King, the Prelate2 will term that treason. 2. This was a dry oil, David his person was not made sacred, nor his authority sacred by it; for he remained a private man, and called Saul his King, his Master, and himself a subject 3. This oil was no doubt Gods Oil, and the Prelate will have it the Holy Ghosts, yet he denieth that saving grace, yea (p. 2. c. 1) he denieth that any supernatural gift should be the foundation of Royal dignity, and that it is a pernicious tenet. So to me he would have the Oil from Heaven, and not from Heaven. 4. This holy oil ⟨p. 35⟩wherewith David was anointed, Psalm 89. 20. to aAugustine, is the oil of saving grace: His own dear brethren the Papists say so, and especially bLyranus, cGlossa ordinaria, d