A92147:711
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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4. The King is to intend the safety of his People; and the safety of the King, as a Governor, but not as this King, and this man, Charles: that is a self end: a King David is not to look to that: for when the people was seeking his life and crown, he saith, Ps. 3. 8. Thy blessing upon thy People. He may care for, and intend that the King and Government be safe: for if the Kingdom be destroyed, there cannot be a new Kingdom and Church on earth again to serve God, in that generation, Psal. 89. 47. but they may easily have a new King again: and so the safety of the one, cannot in reason be intended, as a collateral end, with the safety of the other: for there is no imaginable comparison betwixt one man, with all his accidents of Prerogative and Absoluteness, and three National Churches and Kingdoms▪ Better the King weep for a Childish tri•le of a Prerogative, than Popery be erected, and three Kingdoms be destroyed by Cavaliers, for their own ends.
4. The King is to intend the safetie of his People; and the safety of the King, as a Governour, but not as this King, and this man, Charles: that is a selfe end: a King David is not to looke to that: for when the people was seeking his life and crown, he saith, Ps. 3. 8. Thy blessing upon thy People. He may care for, and intend that the King and Government be safe: for if the Kingdome be destroyed, there cannot be a new Kingdome and Church on earth againe to serve God, in that generation, Psal. 89. 47. but they may easily have a new King againe: and so the safetie of the one, cannot in reason be intended, as a collaterall end, with the safetie of the other: for there is no imaginable comparison betwixt one man, with all his accidents of Prerogative and Absolutenesse, and three Nationall Churches and Kingdomes▪ Better the King weep for a Childish tri•le of a Prerogative, than Poperie be erected, and three Kingdomes be destroyed by Cavaliers, for their own ends.