A92147:500
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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Arg. Our 10th. Arg. If the King dying, the Judges inferior remain1 ⟨p. 170⟩powers from God, the Deputies of the Lord of Hosts having their power from God, then are they essentially Judges; yea and if the estates in their prime representators, and leaders, have power in the death of the King, to choose and make another King, then are they not Judges and Rulers by derivation and participation,2 or unproperly, but the King is rather the Ruler by derivation and participation, then these who are called inferior Judges. Now if these Judges depend in their Sentences upon the immediate will of him who is supposed to be the only Judge, when this only Judge dyeth, they should cease to be Judges: for Expirante mandatore expirat mandatum, because the Fountain Judge drying up, the streams must dry up. Now when Saul dyed, the Princes of the Tribes remain by Gods institution Princes, and they by Gods Law and Warrant, Deut. 17. choose David their King.
Arg. Our 10th. Arg. If the King dying, the Iudges inferiour remaine1 ⟨p. 170⟩powers from God, the Deputies of the Lord of Hoasts having their power from God, then are they essentially Iudges; yea and if the estates in their prime representators, and leaders, have power in the death of the King, to choose and make another King, then are they not Iudges and Rulers by derivation and participation,2 or unproperly, but the King is rather the Ruler by derivation and participation, then these who are called inferiour Iudges. Now if these Iudges depend in their Sentences upon the immediat will of him who is supposed to be the only Iudge, when this only Iudge dyeth, they should cease to be Iudges: for Expirante mandatore expirat mandatum, because the Fountaine Iudge drying up, the streames must dry up. Now when Saul dyed, the Princes of the Tribes remaine by Gods institution Princes, and they by Gods Law and Warrant,