A92147:928
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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D. Ferne, as Arnisaeus did before him, saith, The example of David 1was extraordinary, because he was anointed and designed by God as successor to Saul, and so he must use an extraordinary way of guarding himself. Arnisaeus citeth Alberic. Gentilis, that David was now exempted from amongst the number of Subjects.
D. Ferne, as Arnisaeus did before him, saith, The example of David 1was extraordinary, because he was anointed and designed by God as successor to Saul, and so he must use an extraordinary way of guarding himselfe. Arnisaeus citeth Alberic. Gentilis, that David was now exempted from amongst the number of Subjects.
- 1D. Ferne his resolving of conscience. Sect. 2. Arnisaeus de authorit. prin• ▪ c. 2. n. 15. Davids example not extraordinary▪
Answ. There were not two Kings in Israel now, both David and Saul. 2. David acknowledgeth his subjection in naming Saul the Lords Anointed, & his Master, Lord & King; and therefore David was yet a subject. 3. If David would have proved his title to the Crown by extraordinary ways, he who killed Goliath extraordinarily, might have killed Saul by a miracle; but David goeth a most ordinary way to work, for self-defence, and his coming to the Kingdom was through persecution, want, eating shewbread in case of necessity, defending himself with Goliaths sword. 4. How was any thing extraordinary, and above a Law, seeing David might have killed his enemy Saul, and according to Gods Law he spared him? and he argueth from a moral duty, he is the Lords anointed, therefore I will not kill him? was this extraordinary above a law? then according to Gods law he might ⟨p. 344⟩