A92147:933
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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it is no thing extraordinary to1 the Prophet to call the King the son of a murderer, when he complaineth to the Elders for justice of his oppression, no more then it is for a plaintiff to libel a true crime against a wicked person; and if Elisha's resistance came from an extraordinary spirit, then it is not natural for an oppressed man to close the door upon a murderer, then the taking away of the innocent Prophets head must be extraordinary, for this was but an ordinary and most natural remedy against this oppression; and though to name the King the son of a murderer, be extraordinary, (and I should grant it without any hurt to this cause) it followeth no ways that the self-defence was extraordinary. 3. 2. Chron. 26. 17. Four score of Priests, with Azariah are commended as valiant men. LXX. [Greek or Hebrew]. Heb. [Greek or Hebrew] Arias Montan▪ filii virtutis, Men of courage and valour, for that they resisted Uzziah the King, who would take on him to burn Incense to the Lord, against the Law. M. Symmons pag. 34. sect. 10. They withstood 2him not with swords and weapons, but only by speaking, and one but spake. I answer; It was a bodily resistance: for beside that,3 Jerome turneth it, Viri fortissimi, Most valiant men; And it is a speech in the Scripture, taken for men valorous for war; As 1 Sam. 14. 25. 2 Sam. 17. 10. 1 Chron. 5. 18. And so doth the phrase [Greek or Hebrew] Potent in valour. And the phrase, [Greek or Hebrew] 2 Sam. 24. 9. 2 Sam. 11. 16. 1 Sam. 31. 12. and therefore all the 80. not only by words, but violently expelled the King out of the Temple. 2. [Greek or Hebrew] Arias Mont. & strunt