A92147:788
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.
Lex, Rex. › Question 26: QUEST. XXVI. Whether the King be above the Law or no?
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4. Pharaoh was never circumcised, nor within the Covenant of the God of Israel, in profession.
4. Pharaoh was never circumcised, nor within the Covenant of the God of Isrdel, in profession.
5. Israel had their lands by the mere gift of the King. I hope the King of Britain standeth to Scotland and England in a fourfold contrary relation.
5. Israel had their lands by the meere gift of the King. I hope the King of Britaine standeth to Scotland and England in a fourefold contrary relation.
All Divines know, that Pharaoh his Princes, and the Egyptians, were his Peers and People, •nd that Israel were not his native Subjects, but a number of strangers, who by the laws of the King and Princes, by the means of Joseph, had gotten the land of Goshen for their dwelling, and liberty to serve the God of Abraham, to whom they prayed in their bondage, Exod. 2. 23, 24. and they were not to serve the Gods of Egypt, nor were of the Kings Religion: And therefore his Argument is thus: A number of poor exiled strangers under King Pharaoh, who were not Pharaohs Princes and Peers, could not restrain the Tyranny of King Pharaoh: Ergo, the three Estates in a free Kingdom may not restrain the Arbitrary power of a King.
All Divines know, that Pharaoh his Princes, and the Egyptians, were his Peeres and People, •nd that Israel were not his native Subjects, but a number of strangers, who by the lawes of the King and Princes, by the meanes of Joseph, had gotten the land of Goshen for their dwelling, and libertie to serve the God of Abraham, to whom they prayed in their bondage,