A92147:816
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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They object, Prov. 16. 10. A Divine sentence is in the lips of the King, His mouth transgresseth not in judgement, ergo, he only can expone the Law.
Ans. 1. Lavater saith, (and I see no reason on the contrary) by a King, he meaneth all Magistrates. 2. Aben Ezra, and Isidorus read the words imperatively. The Tigurine version: They are Oracles which proceed from his lips: let not therefore his mouth transgress in judgement. Vatabulus: When he is in his prophecies, he lieth not. Jansenius: Non facile errabit in judicando. Mich. Jermine: If he pray. Calvin: If he read in the book of the Law, as God commandeth him, Deut. 17. But why stand we on the place? He speaketh of ⟨p. 257⟩good Kings, saith Cornel. a Lapide. Otherwise, Jeroboam, Ahab, Manasseh, erred in judgement. And except, (as Mercerus expoundeth it) We understand him to speak of Kings according to their office, not their facts and practice, we make them Popes, and men who cannot give out grievous and unjust sentences on the Throne: against both the Word, and experience.
Ans. 1. Lavater saith, (and I see no reason on the contrary) by a King, he meaneth all Magistrates. 2. Aben Ezra, and Isidorus read the words imperatively. The Tigurine version: They are Oracles which proceed from his lips: let not therefore his mouth transgresse in judgement. Vatabulus: When he is in his prophecies, he lyeth not. Iansenius: Non facile errabit in judicando. Mich. Iermine: If he pray. Calvine: If he read in the booke of the Law, as God commandeth him, Deut. 17. But why stand we on the place? He speaketh of ⟨p. 257⟩good Kings, saith Cornel. a Lapide. Otherwise, •eroboam, Achab, Manasseh, erred in judgement. And except, (as Mercerus exponeth it) We understand him to speake of Kings according to their office, not their facts and practice, we make them Popes, and men who cannot give out grievous and unjust sentences on the Throne: against both the Word, and experience.