A92147:714
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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Ans. No shadow for either, in the word of God. Caiaphas prophesied, and knew not what he said. But that the Jews intended the salvation of the Elect, in kil•ing Christ: or that Saul intended a public good in sparing Agag, shall be the Prelates Divinity, not mine.
Ans. No shadow for either, in the word of God. Caiaphas prophecied, and knew not what he said. But that the Iewes intended the salvation of the Elect, in kil•ing Christ: or that Saul intended a publick good in sparing Agag, shall be the Prelates Divinitie, not mine.
2. What, howbeit many should abuse this Law of the peoples safety, to wrong good Kings, it ceaseth not therefore to be a Law, and licenseth not ill Kings, to place a Tyrannical Prerogative above a just Dictate of nature.
2. What, howbeit many should abuse this Law of the peoples safety, to wrong good Kings, it ceaseth not therefore to be a Law, and licenseth not ill Kings, to place a Tyrannicall Prerogative above a just Dictate of nature.
In the last Chapter, the Prelate hath no reasons, only he would1 have Kings holy, and this he proveth from Apocrypha Books, because he is ebb in holy Scripture; but it is Romish holiness, as is clear.
In the last Chapter, the Prelate hath no reasons, onely he would1 have Kings holy, and this he proveth from Apocrypha Books, because he is ebbe in holy Scripture; but it is Romish holinesse, as is cleer.