A92147:427
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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But the scope of Samuel's Sermon, is to dissuade them from a King, and they by the contrary (Verse 19. say they) Nay, but we will have a King; and there not one word in the Text, that may intimate patience under the yoke of a King. 2. There is here the description of a Tyrant, not of a King. 3. Here is a threatening and a prediction, not any thing that smelleth of an exhortation.
But the scope of Samuels Sermon, is to disswade them from a King, and they by the contrary (Verse 19. say they) Nay, but we will have a King; and there not one word in the Text, that may intimate patience under the yoke of a King. 2. There is here the description of a Tyrant, not of a King. 3. Here is a threatning and a prediction, not any thing that smelleth of an exhortation.
Object. But it is evident, that God teaching the people how to behave1 themselves under the unjust oppressions of their King, he sets ⟨p. 135⟩down no remedy but tears, crying to God, prayer, and patience; therefore resistance is not lawful.
Object. But it is evident, that God teaching the people how to behave1 themselves under the unjust oppressions of their King, he sets ⟨p. 135⟩down no remedy but tears, crying to God, prayer, and patience; therefore resistance is not lawfull.
- 1D. Ferne. 3. p. Sect. 2. pag. 10.