A92147:683
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.
Ans. 1. The question is not of the Wisdom, but of the Power of the King, if it should be bounded by no Law.
Ans. 1. The question is not of the Wisedome, but of the Power of the King, if it should be bounded by no Law.
2. The flatterer may know, there be more foolish Kings in the world then wise, and that Kings misled with Idolatrous Queens, and by name Ahab ruined himself, and his posterity and Kingdom.
2. The flatterer may know, there be more foolish Kings in the world then wise, and that Kings misled with Idolatrous Queenes, and by name Achab ruined himselfe, and his posterity and Kingdome.
3. The salvation and happiness of men standing in the exalting of Christs Throne and the Gospel, ergo every King, and every man will exalt the Throne, and so let them have an incontrollable power without constraint of Law, to do what they list, and let no bounds be set to Kings over subjects; by this Argument their own wisdom is a law to lead them to Heaven.
3. The salvation and happinesse of men standing in the exalting of Christs Throne and the Gospell, ergo every King, and every man will exalt the Throne, and so let them have an incontrollable power without constraint of Law, to doe what they list, and let no bounds be set to Kings over subjects; by this Argument their owne wisedome is a law to leade them to Heaven.