A92147:334
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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Obj. 3. It is accidental to any to render himself a slave, being 1occasioned by force or extreme indigence, but to submit to Government congruous to the condition of man, and is necessary for his happy being, and natural, and necessary by the inviolable Ordinance of God and nature. Ans. If the father be a slave, it is natural and not accidental, by the Prelates Logic, to be a slave. 2. it is also accidental to be under Sovereignty, and sure not natural, for then Aristocracy and Democracy must be unnatural, and so unlawful2 Governments. 3. If to be congruous to the condition of man be all ⟨p. 95⟩one with natural man (which he must say if he speak sense) to believe in God, to be an excellent Mathematician, to swim in deep waters, being congruous to the nature of man, must be natural. 4. Man by nature is under government Paternal, not Politic properly, but by the free consent of his will.
Obj. 3. It is accidentall to any to render himselfe a slave, being 1occasioned by force or extreame indigence, but to submit to Government congrnous to the condition of man, and is necessary for his happy being, and naturall, and necessary by the inviolable Ordinance of God and nature. Ans. If the father be a slave, it is naturall and not accidentall, by the Prelates Logick, to be a slave. 2. it is also accidentall to be under Soveraignty, and sure not naturall, for then Aristocracy and Democracy must be unnaturall, and so unlawfull2 Governments. 3. If to be congruous to the condition of man be all ⟨p. 95⟩one with naturall man (which he must say if he speake sense) to beleeve in God, to be an excellent Mathematician, to swim in deepe waters, being congruous to the nature of man, must be naturall. 4. Man by nature is under government Paternall, not Politique properly, but by the free consent of his will.