A92147:428
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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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.
Answ. Though this be not the place due to the doctrine of Resistance,1 yet to vindicate the place; I say, there is not one word of any lawful remedy in the Text, only it is said, [Greek or Hebrew], Et clamatis in illa die a faciebus regis vestri: It is not necessarily to be exponed of praying to God, Job 35. 9. by reason of the multitude of the oppression, They make the oppressed to cry, [Greek or Hebrew] clamare faciunt, Isai. 15. 4. And Heshbon shall cry. [Greek or Hebrew] The armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out. There is no other word here, then doth express the idolatrous prayers of Moab, Isai. 17. 12. and Habak. 2. 11. The stone shall cry out of the wall [Greek or Hebrew],