A92147:224
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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QUEST. VII. Whether or no the P. Prelate the aforesaid Author doth by force of reason evince, that neither constitution nor designation of the King is from the people?
QUEST. VII. Whether or no the P. Prelate the aforesaid Auth•r doth by force of reason evince, that neither constitution nor designation of the King is from the people?
The P. Prelate aimeth (but it is an empty aim) to prove that the people are wholly excluded. I answer only Arguments not pitched on before, as the Prelate saith.
THe P. Prelate aymeth (but it is an empty ayme) to prove that the people are wholly excluded. I answer only Arguments not pitched on before, as the Prelate saith.
P. Prelate. 1. To whom can it be more proper to give the rule over men, then to him who is the only King truly and properly of the whole world? 2. God is the immediate Author of all rule and power that is amongst all his creatures, above or below. 3. Man before the fall received dominion, and empire over all the creatures below immediately, as Gen. 1. 28. Gen. 9. 2. ergo we cannot deny that the most noble government (to wit Monarchy) must be immediately from God, without any Contract or compact of men. Ans. The first reason concludeth not what is in question; for God only giveth rule and power to one man over another; ergo he giveth it immediately, it followeth not. 2. It shall as well prove that God doth immediately constitute all Judges, and therefore it shall be unlawful for a city to appoint a Major, or a shire a Justice of peace. 3. The second argument is inconsequent also, because God in creation is the immediate Author of