A92147:676
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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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.
10. He is a base flatterer, who saith, The King cannot choose but earnestly and carefully endeavour his own, and the peoples happinesse: that is, the King is an Angel, and cannot sinne, 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.
11. The peoples safety dependeth indeed on the King, as a King and a happy Governor; but the people shall never be fattened to eat the wind of an imaginary Prerogative Royal.
11. The peoples safetie dependeth indeed on the King, as a King and a happy Governour; but the people shall never be fattened to eat the winde of an imaginarie Prerogative Royall.
12. Weak Government, that is, a King with a limited power, who hath more power about his head, nor within his head; is a ⟨p. 222⟩strong King, and far from Anarchy.
12. Weake Government, that is, a King with a limited power, who hath more power about his head, nor within his head; is a ⟨p. 222⟩strong King, and farre from Anarchy.