A92147:412
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Object. 2. God maketh a King only, and the Kingly power is in him only, not in the people. Ans. The Royal power is only from God, immediately, Immediatione simplicis constitutionis, & solum a Deo solitudine primae causae, by the immediation of simple constitution, none but God appointed there should be▪ Kings; but 2. Royal power is not in God, nor only from God; immediatione applicationis regiae dignitatis ad personam, nec a Deo solum, solitudine▪ causae applicantis dignitatem, huic, non illi, in respect of the applying of Royal dignity to this person, not to this.
Object. 2. God maketh a King only, and the Kingly power is in him only, not in the people. Ans. The Royall power is only from God, immediatly, Immediatione simplicis constitutionis, & solum a Deo solitudine primae causae, by the immediation of simple constitution, none but God appointed there should be▪ Kings; but 2. Royall power is not in God, nor only from God; immediatione applicationis regiae dignitatis ad personam, nec a Deo solum, solitudine▪ causae applicantis dignitatem, huic, non illi, in respect of the applying of Royall dignity to this person, not to this.
Object. 3. Though Royal power were given to the people, it is not given to the people, as if it were the Royal power of the people, and not the Royal power of God, neither is it any other ways bestowed on the people but as on a beam, a channel, an instrument, by which it is derived ⟨p. 127⟩to others, and so the King is not the minister or servant of the people.
Object. 3. Though Royall power were given to the people, it is not given to the people, as if it were the Royal power of the people, and not the Royall power of God, neither is it any other waies bestowed on the people but as on a beame, a channell, an instrument, by which it is derived