A92147:871
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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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.
Much is built, to commend patient suffering of ill, and condemn all resistance of Superiors, by Royalists, on the place 1 Pet. 2. 18. Where we are commanded, being servants, to suffer buffets, not only for ill doing, of good masters, but also undeservedly, and when we do well, we are to suffer of these masters that are evil; and so much more are we patiently, without Resistance, to suffer of Kings. But it is clear, the place is nothing against Resistance, as in these Assertions I clear.
MUch is built, to commend patient suffering of ill, and condemne all resistance of Superiors, by Royalists, on the place 1 Pet. 2. 18. Where we are commanded, being servants, to suffer buffets, not onely for ill doing, of good masters, but also undeservedly, and when we doe well, we are to suffer of these masters that are evill; and so much more are we patiently, without Resistance, to suffer of Kings. But it is cleare, the place is nothing against Resistance, as in these Assertions I cleare.
Assertion 1. Patient suffering of wicked men, and violent resisting are not incompatible, but they may well stand together: So this consequence is the basis of the argument, and it is just nothing. To wit, Servants are to suffer unjustly wounds and buffeting of their wicked Masters, and they are to bear it patiently; Ergo, Servants are in conscience obliged to non-resistance. Now Scripture maketh this clear; The Church of God is to bear with all patience, the indignation