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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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5. If God give Kings to be a ransom for his Church, and if he1 slay great Kings for their sake, as Pharaoh King of Egypt, Esa. 43. 3 and Sihon King of the Amorites, and Og King of Bashan, Ps. 136. 18, 19, 20. if he plead with Princes and Kings for destroying his people, Esa. 3. v. 12, 13, 14. if he make Babylon and her King a threshing-floor, for the violence done to the inhabitants of Zion, Jer. 51. 33, 34, 35. then his people as his people, must be so much dearer and more precious in the Lords eyes, then Kings because they are Kings, by how much more his Justice is active to destroy the one, and his Mercy to save the other. Neither is the Argument taken off, by saying the King must in this question be compared with his own people; not a foreign King with other foreign people over whom he doth not Reign, for the Argument proveth that the people of God are of more worth then Kings as Kings; and Nebuchadnezzar and Pharaoh for the time were Kings to the people of God, and foreign Kings are no less essentially Kings, then Kings native are.
5. If God give Kings to be a ransome for his Church, and if he1 slay great Kings for their sake, as Pharaoh King of Aegypt, Esa. 43. 3 and Sihon King of the Amorites, and Og King of Bashan, Ps. 136. 18, 19, 20. if he plead with Princes and Kings for destroying his people, Esa. 3. v. 12, 13, 14. if he make Babylon and her King a threshing-floore, for the violence done to the inhabitants of Zion, Ier. 51. 33, 34, 35. then his people as his people, must be so much dearer and more precious in the Lords eyes, then Kings because they are Kings, by how much more his Justice is active to destroy the one, and his Mercy to save the other. Neither is the Argument taken off, by saying the King must in this question be compared with his owne people; not a forraigne King with other forraigne people over whom he doth not Raigne, for the Argument proveth that the people of God are of more worth then Kings as Kings; and Nebuchadnezer and Pharoah for the time were Kings to the people of God, and forraigne Kings are no lesse essentially Kings, then Kings native are.