A92147:424
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.
But let us try the Text first [Greek or Hebrew] the word cannot enforce us to expone [Greek or Hebrew] a law; our English rendereth, Show them the manner of the King. eArri. Montanus turneth it ratio Regis. ⟨p. 132⟩I grant the Seventy render it, f[Greek or Hebrew]. The Chaldee Paraphrase saith, Statutum regis. gHieronimus translateth it jus regis; so Calvin: but I am sure the Hebrew both in words and sense beareth a consuetude; yea, and the word [Greek or Hebrew] signifieth not always a law, as Josh. 6. 14. They compassed the city [Greek or Hebrew] seven times. 70. [Greek or Hebrew]. 2 King. 17. 26. They know not the manner of the God of the Land, Vers. 33. They served their ••n gods, after the manner of the Heathen. [Greek or Hebrew] It cannot be according to the Law or right of the Heathen, except [Greek or Hebrew], be taken in an evil part. 70. [Greek or Hebrew]. Vers. 34. Until this day they do after these manners, 1 Kings 18. 28. Baals Priests cut themselves with Knives [Greek or Hebrew] after their manner. 70. [Greek or Hebrew], Gen. 40. 13. Thou shalt give the cup to Pharaoh, according as thou wast wont to do. [Greek or Hebrew], Exod. 21. 19. He shall deal with her after the manner of daughters, 1 Sam. 27. 11. And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring (tidings) to Gath, saying, So did David, and so will his manner be, [Greek or Hebrew]. It cannot be, they meant that it was Davids law, right, or privilege to spare none alive,