A92147:936
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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If the people may covenant by oath to rescue the innocent and unjustly condemned, from the sentence of death notoriously known be to tyrannous and cruel, then may the people resist the King in his unlawful practises. But this the people did in the matter of Jonathan. M. Symmons saith pag. 32. and Doctor Ferne §. 9. 49. That with no violence, but by prayers and tears the people saved Jonathan, as Peter was rescued out of prison by the prayers of the Church, King Saul might easily be entreated to break a rash vow to save the life of his eldest son. Ans 1. I say not the common people did it, but the people including proceres regni, the Princes of the land, and captains of thousands. 2. The text hath not one word or syllable of either prayers, supplications or tears, but by the contrary▪ They bound themselves by an oath, contrary to the oath of Saul▪ 1 Sam. 14. 44. and swear. ver. 45. God forbid, as the Lord liveth, ⟨p. 349⟩there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, so the people rescued 1Jonathan. The Church prayed not to God for Peters deliverance with an oath, that they must have Peter saved whether God will or no.
If the people may covenant by oath to rescue the innocent and unjustly condemned, from the sentence of death notoriously known be to tyranous and cruel, then may the people resist the King in his unlawfull practises. But this the people did in the matter of Ionathan. M. Symmons saith pag. 32. and Doctor Ferne §. 9. 49. That with no violence, but by prayers and teares the people saved Jonathan, as Peter was rescued out of prison by the prayers of the Church, King Saul might easily be intreated to break a rash vow to save the life of his eldest son. Ans 1. I say not the common people did it, but the people including proceres regni, the Princes of the land, and captaines of thousands. 2. The text hath not one word or syllable of either prayers, supplications or teares, but by the contrary▪ They bound themselves by an oath, contrary to the oath of Saul▪