A92147:513
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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would not make a Covenant with Jacobs Sons, without the consent of the men of the City, and Ephron the Hittite would not sell Abraham a burial place in his Land without the consent of the children of Heth, Gen. 23. 10. Then must the estates have a power of judging with the King or Prince in matters of Religion, Justice, and Government, which concern the whole Kingdom; but the former is true by the Records of Scripture, ergo, so is the latter.
would not make a Covenant with Iacobs Sons, without the consent of the men of the City, and Ephron the Hittite would not sell Abraham a buriall place in his Land without the consent of the children of Heth, Gen. 23. 10. Then must the estates have a power of judging with the King or Prince in matters of Religion, Iustice, and Government, which concerne the whole Kingdome; but the former is true by the Records of Scripture, ergo, so is the latter.
8. The men of Ephraim complain that Jephthah had gone to1 war against the children of Ammon without them, and hence rose war betwixt the men of Ephraim, and the men of Gilead, Jud. 12. 1, 2, 3. and the men of Israel fiercely contend with the men of Judah, because they brought King▪ David home again without them, pleading that they were therein despised, 2 Sam. 19. 41, 42, 43. which evinceth that the whole States have hand in matters of public government, that concern all the Kingdom; and when there is no King, Judg. 20. The chief of the people, and of all the Tribes go out in battle, against the children of Benjamin.
8. The men of Ephraim complaine that Iephtah had gone to