A92147:793
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?
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.
P. Prelate. So in the Book of the Judges, when the people were delivered1 over to the hand of their enemies, because of their sins; he never warranted the ordinary Judges, or Community, to be their own2 deliverers, but when they repented, God raised up a Judge. The people had no hand in their own deliverance out of Babylon, God effected it by Cyrus, immediately and totally. Is not this a real proof, God will not have inferior Judges, to rectify what is amiss; but we must wait in patience till God provide lawful means, some Sovereign power immediately sent by himself, in which course of his ordinary providence, he will not be deficient.
P. Prelate. So in the Book of the Judges, when the people were delivered1 over to the hand of their enemies, because of their sins; he never warranted the ordinary Iudges, or Communitie, to be their own2 deliverers, but when they repented, God raised up a Iudge. The people had no hand in their own deliverance out of Babylon, God effected it by Cyrus, immediately and totally. Is not this a reall proof, God will not have inferiour Iudges, to rectifie what is amisse; but we must waite in patience till God provide lawfull means, some Soveraign power immediately sent by himself, in which course of his ordinary providence, he will not be deficient.
- 1Sac. sanct. maj. pag. 153.
- 2Gods delivering his people by Judges, and by Cyrus nothing against the power of a free people.Gods delivering his people by Iudges, and by Cyrus nothing against the power of a free people.