A92147:584
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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Obj. 7. Here the Prelate borrowing from Grotius, Barclay,1 Arnisaeus; (or its possible he be not so far travelled) for Doct. Ferne hath the same. Sovereignty weakened in Aristocracy cannot do• ⟨p. 203⟩its work, and is in the next place to Anarchy and confusion. When Zedekiah was over Lorded by his Nobles, he could neither save himself, nor the people, nor the Prophet the servant of God Jeremiah; nor could David punish Joab, when he was over-awed by that power he himself had put in his hand. To weaken the head, is to distemper the whole body, if any good Prince or his Royal Antecessors be cheated of their sacred right by fraud or force, he may at his fittest opportunity, resume it. What a sin is it to rob God, or the King of their due?
Obj. 7. Here the Prelate borrowing from Grotius, Barclay,1 Arnisaeus; (or its possible he be not so farre travelled) for Doct. Ferne hath the same. Soveraignty weakned in Aristocracy cannot do• ⟨p. 203⟩its worke, and is in the next place to Anarchy and confusion. When Zedekiah was over Lorded by his Nobles, he could neither save himselfe, nor the people, nor the Prophet the servant of God Ieremiah; nor could David punish Ioab, when he was over-awed by that power he himselfe had put in his hand. To weaken the head, is to distemper the whole body, if any good Prince or his Royall Antecessors be cheated of their sacred right by fraud or force, he may at his fittest opportunity, resume it. What a sinne is it to rob God, or the King of their due?
- 1Sac. sanc. Mai. c. 14. p. 144.