A treatise of civil policy

Name: A treatise of civil policy
Author: Samuel Rutherford

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.

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661London, : 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

[34], 438 p. · 210k words · Wing R2396 · ESTC R207911

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Lex, Rex. › Question 29: QUEST. XXIX. Whether, in the case of Defensive war, the distinction of the person of…Lex, Rex. › Question 29: QUEST. XXIX. Whether, in the case of Defensive warre, the distinction of the person of…

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Symmons, p. 27. Gods Word tieth me to every one of his personal commandments, as well as his legal commandments: nor do I obey the Kings law, because it is established, or because of its known penalty▪ nor yet the King himself, because he ruleth according to Law. But I obey the Kings law, because I obey the King: and I obey the King, because I obey God: I obey the King, and his Law, because I obey God and his Law. Better obey the Command, for a reveren• regard to the Prince, then for a penalty. Ans. It is hard to answer a sick man. It is blasphemy, to seek this distinction of Person and Office, in the King of Kings; because by (Person) in a mortal King, we understand a Man that can sin. 1. I am not obliged to obey his personal commandment, except I were his domestic: nor his unlawful personal commandments, because they are sinful. 2. It is false that you obey the Kings Law, because you obey the King: for then you say but this, I obey the King, because I obey the King. The truth is, ⟨p. 278⟩Obedience is not formally terminated on the person of the King; Obedience is relative to a precept▪ and it is Men-service, to obey a Lew, not because it is good and just; but upon this formal motive, because it is the will of a mortal man to command it. And Reverence, Love, Fear, being acts of the Affection, are not terminated on a Law, but properly on the Person of the Judge: and they are modifications, or laudable qualifications of acts of obedience; not motives, not the formal reason why I obey, but the manner how I obey. And the Apostle maketh expressly, Rom. 13▪ 4. fear of punishment, a motive of obedience, while he saith, He beareth not the sword in vain; Ergo, Be subject to the King. And this hindereth not personal resistance to unjust commandments.

Symmons, p. 27. Gods Word tyeth me to every one of his personall commandements, as well as his legall commandements: nor doe I obey the Kings law, because it is established, or because of its known penaltie▪ nor yet the King himselfe, because he ruleth according to Law. But I obey the Kings law, because I obey the King: and I obey the King, because I obey God: I obey the King, and his Law, because I obey God and his Law. Better obey the Command, for a reveren regard to the Prince, then for a penaltie. Ans. It is hard to answer a sick man. It is blasphemie, to seek this distinction of Person and Office, in the King of Kings; because by (Person) in a mortall King, we understand a Man that can sinne. 1. I am not obliged to obey his personall commandement, except I were his domestick: nor his unlawfull personall commandements, because they are sinfull. 2. It is false that you obey the Kings Law, because you obey the King: for then you say but this, I obey the King, because I obey the King. The truth is,

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Author

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661

Place

London

Year

1656

Imprint

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]

Size

[34], 438 p.

Words

210,399

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Wing R2396 · ESTC R207911

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EEBO-TCP A92147

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1,374

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A treatise of civil policy

QUEST. XXX. Whether or no Passive Obedience be a mean to which we are subjected in conscience, by virtue of a Divine Commandment, and what a mean Resistance is. That Flying is Resistance.

QUEST. XXX. Whether or no Passive Obedience be a meane to which we are subjected in conscience, by vertue of a Divine Commandement, and what a meane Resistance is. That Flying is Resistance.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

QUEST. XXX. Whether or no Passive Obedience be a mean to which we are subjected in conscience, by virtue of a Divine Commandment, and what a mean Resistance is. That Flying is Resistance.

QUEST. XXX. Whether or no Passive Obedience be a meane to which we are subjected in conscience, by vertue of a Divine Commandement, and what a meane Resistance is. That Flying is Resistance.

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