A92147:672
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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6. The people are to intend the safety of other Judges, as well as the Kings. If Parliaments be destroyed, whose it is to make Laws and Kings; the People can neither be safe, free to serve Christ, nor happy.
6. The people are to intend the safetie of other Iudges, as well as the Kings. If Parliaments be destroyed, whose it is to make Lawes and Kings; the People can neither besafe, free to serve Christ, nor happy.
7. It is a lie, that people were necessitated, at the beginning, to commit themselves to a King: for we read of no King, while Nimrod arose: Fathers of families (who were not Kings) and others, did govern till then.
7. It is a lie, that people were necessitated, at the beginning, to commit themselves to a King: for we read of no King, while Nimrod arose: Fathers of families (who were not Kings) and others, did governe till then.
8. It was not want of wisdom, (for in many, and in the people, there must be more wisdom then in one man:) but rather corruption of nature, and reciprocation of injuries, that created Kings, and other Judges.
8. It was not want of wisedome, (for in many, and in the people, there must be more wisdome then in one man:) but rather corruption of nature, and reciprocation of injuries, that created Kings, and other Iudges.