A92147:411
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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Assert. 3. The King is more properly a sort of Patron, to defend1 the people, and therefore hath no power given either by God or man to hurt the people, and a Minister or public and honourable servant, Rom. 13. 4. for he is the Minister of God to thee for good; he is the Common-wealths servant objectively, because all the Kings2 service, as he is King, is for the good, safety, peace and salvation of the people, and in this he is a servant. 2. He is the servant of the people Representatively, in that the people hath impawned in his hand all their power to do Royal service. Obj. He is the servant of God, ergo he is not the peoples Servant, but their sovereign Lord. Ans. It followeth not, because all the service the King as King performeth to God, they are acts of Royalty, and acts of Royal service, as terminated on the people; or acts of their Sovereign Lord, and this proveth that to be their Sovereign, is to be their servant, and watch-man.3
Assert. 3. The King is more properly a sort of Patron, to defend1 the people, and therefore hath no power given either by God or man to hurt the people, and a Minister or publick and honourable servant, Rom. 13. 4. for he is the Minister of God to thee for good; he is the Common-wealths servant objectively, because all the Kings2 service, as he is King, is for the good, safety, peace and salvation of the people, and in this he is a servant. 2. He is the servant of the people Representatively, in that the people hath impawned in his hand all their power to doe Royall service. Obj. He is the servant of God, ergo he is not the peoples Servant, but their soveraigne Lord. Ans. It followeth not, because all the service the King as King performeth to God, they are acts of Royalty, and acts of Royall service, as terminated on the people; or acts of their Soveraigne Lord, and this proveth that to be their Soveraigne, is to be their servant, and watch-man.