A92147:945
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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Answ. It is most false that King David is so immediately a King from God, as that he is not also by the mediation of the people, who made him King at Hebron. 2. The inferior Magistrates are also immediate vicars and ministers of God as the King, for their throne and judgement is not the Kings, but the Lords, Deut. 1. 16. 2 Chron. 19. 6. 3. Though they were mediately from man, it followeth not that they are not so properly from God, for Wisdom Prov. 8. saith as properly, ver. 16. By me Princes rule, and Nobles, even all the Judges of the earth, as ver. 15. By me Kings reign; and promotion is as properly from God, and not from the East, and the West, Psal. 75. 6, 7. Though God promote Joseph by the than• full munificence of Pharaoh, and Mordecai by Ahasuerus, Daniel by Darius, as if he gave them power and honour immediately from Heaven.
Answ. It is most false that King David is so immediatly a King from God, as that he is not also by the mediation of the people, who made him King at Hebron. 2. The inferiour Magistrates are also immediate vicars and ministers of God as the King, for their throne and judgement is not the Kings, but the Lords, Deut. 1. 16. 2 Chron. 19. 6. 3. Though they were mediatly from man, it followeth not that they are not so properly from God, for Wisdome Prov. 8. saith as properly, ver. 16. By me Princes rule, and Nobles, even all the Iudges of the earth, as ver. 15. By me Kings reigne; and promotion is as properly from God, and not from the East, and the West, Psal. 75. 6, 7. Though God promote Ioseph by the than• full munificence of Pharaoh, and Mordecai by Ahasuerus, Daniel by Darius, as if he gave them power and honour immediately from Heaven.