A92147:539
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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and 17. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 2 Chro. 19. 6, 7. Rom. 13. 3, 4. If this power be from God, as it is unrestrainable and unpunishable by the subject, it is not from God at all; for how can God give a power to do ill, that is unpunishable by men, and not give that power to do ill; it is unconceivable: For in this very thing that God giveth to David, a power to murder the innocent, with this respect, That it shall be punishable by God only, and not by men, God m•st give it as a sinful power to do ill, which must be a power of dispensation to sin, and so not to be punished by either God, or man, which is contrary to his revealed will in his word: If such a power as not restrainable by man, be from God, by way of permission, as a power to sin in devils, and men is, then it is no Royal power, nor any Ordinance of God, and to resist this power, is not to resist the Ordinance of God.
and 17. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 2 Chro. 19. 6, 7. Rom. 13. 3, 4. If this power be from God, as it is unrestrainable and unpunishable by the subject, it is not from God at all; for how can God give a power to do ill, that is unpunishable by men, and not give that power to do ill; it is unconceiveable: For in this very thing that God giveth to David, a power to murther the innocent, with this respect, That it shall be punishable by God onely, and not by men, God m•st give it as a sinfull power to do ill, which must be a power of dispensation to sin, and so not to be punished by either God, or man, which is contrary to his revealed will in his word: If such a power as not restrainable by man, be from God, by way of permission, as a power to sin in divels, and men is, then it is no Royall power, nor any Ordinance of God, and to resist this power, is not to resist the Ordinance of God.