A92147:438
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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IN this grave question divers considerations are to be pondered. 1. There is a Dignity material in the people scattered, they being1 many representations of God and his Image, which is in the King also, and formally more as King, he being endued with formal Magistratical and public Royal Authority, in the former regard this or that man is inferior to the King, because the King hath that same remainder of the Image of God that any private man hath and something more, •e hath a politic resemblance of the King of Heavens, being a little God, and so is above any one man.
IN this grave question divers considerations are to be pondered. 1. There is a Dignity materiall in the people scattered, they being1 many representations of God and his Image, which is in the King also, and formally more as King, he being indued with formall Magistraticall and publick Royall Authority, in the former regard this or that man is inferiour to the King, because the King hath that same remander of the Image of God that any private man hath and something more, •e hath a politicke resemblance of the King of Heavens, being a little God, and so is above any one man.
- 1In what considerations the King is wo• their then the people, and the people worthier then the King.In what considerations the King is wo• thier then the people, and the people worthier then the King.
2. All these of the people taken collectively having more of God, as being representations, are according to this material dignity excellenter then the King, because many are excellenter then one, and the King according to the Magistratical and Royal Authority he hath, is excellenter then they are, because he partaketh formally of