A92147:689
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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7. Of tempered and limited Monarchy, I think as honourably as the Prelate, but that absolute and unlimited Monarchy is excellenter then Aristocracy, I shall then believe when Royalists shall prove such a Government, in so far it is absolute, to be of God.
7. Of tempered and limited Monarchy, I thinke as honourably as the Prelate, but that absolute and unlimited Monarchy is excellenter then Aristocracy, I shall then beleeve when Royalists shall prove such a Government, in so farre it is absolute, to be of God.
8. That Aristocracy was now weakened I believe not, seeing God so highly commendeth it, and calleth it his own reigning over his people, 1 Sam. 8. 7. The weakening of it through abuse, is not to a purpose, more then the abuse of Monarchy.
8. That Aristocracy was now weakened I beleeve not, seeing God so highly commendeth it, and calleth it his own reigning over his people, 1 Sam. 8. 7. The weakening of it through abuse, is not to a purpose, more then the abuse of Monarchy.
9. No doubt (saith he) Hos. 4. They were Priests and Judges, Hos. 4. but they were over-awed as they are now. J think he would say, Hos. 3. 4. otherwise he citeth Scripture sleeping. That the Priests of Antichrist be not only over-awed, but out of the earth; I yield, that the King be limited, not over-awed, I think Gods Law, and mans Law alloweth.