A92147:663
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. In the desires of the most holy: Moses, a Prince, desired for the safety of Gods people; and rather then God should destroy his people, that his name should be razed out of the book of life. And David saith, 1 Chron. 21. 17. Let thine hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me, und on my fathers house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued. This being a holy desire of these two public1 Spirits, the object must be in it self true; and the safety of God• people, and their happiness, must be of more worth then the salvation of Moses, and the life of David, and his Fathers house.
4. In the desires of the most holy: Moses, a Prince, desired for the safetie of Gods people; and rather then God should destroy his people, that his name should be razed out of the booke of life. And David saith, 1 Chron. 21. 17. Let thine hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me, und on my fathers house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued. This being a holy desire of these two publick1 Spirits, the object must be in it selfe true; and the safetie of God• people, and their happinesse, must be of more worth then the salvation of Moses, and the life of David, and his Fathers house.
- 1A good Prince is to postpone his own safety to the safety of the people.A good Prince is to postpon• his own safetie to the safetie of the people.
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