A92147:677
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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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.
13. I know not what he meaneth, but Arminius, his Masters1 way and words are here, for Arminians say, That being in the damned eternally tormented is no benefit, it were better they never had being, then to be eternally tormented; and this they say to the defiance of the Doctrine of eternal Reprobation, in which we teach, That though by accident, and because of the Damned their abuse of being and life, it were to them better not to be; as is said of Judas, yet simpliciter comparing being with non-being, and considering the eternity of miserable being in relation to the absolute liberty of the Former of all things, who maketh use of the sinful being of Clay-vessels for the illustration of the glory of his Justice and power,