A92147:674
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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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.
9. The King shall better compass his end, to wit, the safety of the people, with limited power, (placent mediocria) and with other Judges added to help him, Num. 11. 14, 16. Deut. 1. 12, 13, 14, 15. then to put in one mans hand absolute power: for a sinful mans head cannot bear so much new wine, such as exorbitant power is.
9. The King shall better compasse his end, to wit, the safetie of the people, with limited power, (placent mediocria) and with other Iudges added to helpe him, Num. 11. 14, 16. Deut. 1. 12, 13, 14, 15. then to put in one mans hand absolute power: for a sinfull mans head cannot beare so much new wine, such as exorbitant power is.
10. He is a base flatterer, who saith, The King cannot choose but earnestly and carefully endeavour his own, and the peoples happiness: that is, the King is an Angel, and cannot sin, and decline from the duties of a King. Of the many Kings of Judah and Israel, how many chose this? All the good Kings that have been, may be written in a gold ring.