A92147:858
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. The Law clearly distinguisheth we are to obey Parents in the Lord, and if Nero command Idolatry, this is an excessive power; are we obliged to obey, because the Law distinguisheth not? 2. The text saith, we are to obey every power, 1. from God, 2. That is Gods ordinance, 3. by which the man is a Minister of God for good; but an unjust and excessive power is none of these three. 3. The text in words distinguisheth not obedience active in things wicked, and lawful: yet we are to distinguish.
Ans. The Law clearely distinguisheth we are to obey Parents in the Lord, and if Nero command Idolatry, this is an excessive power; are we obliged to obey, because the Law distinguisheth not? 2. The text saith, we are to obey every power, 1. from God, 2. That is Gods ordinance, 3. by which the man is a Minister of God for good; but an unjust and excessive power is none ofthese three. 3. The text in words distinguisheth not obedience active in things wicked, and lawfull: yet we are to distinguish.
Mr. Symmons. Is authority subjected solely in the Kings Law, and1 no whit in his Person, though put upon him both by God and Man? Or, is Authority only the subject; and the Person exercising the Authority, ⟨p. 276⟩a bare accident to that, being in it only more separably, as pride and folly are in a man: Then if one in Authority command, out of his own Will, and not by Law: if I neither actively, nor passively obey, J do not so much as resist abused Authority: and then must the Prince by his disorderly Will have quite lost his authority, and become like▪ another man; and yet his Authority has not fled from him.
Mr. Symmons. Is authoritie subjected solely in the Kings Law, and1 no whit in his Person, though put upon him both by God and Man? Or, is Authoritie only the subject; and the Person exercising the Authoritie,