A92147:958
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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Ans. He is as essentially a King, as a hereditary, yea as an absolute Prince, and no less the Lords anointed then another prince, if then one, also another may be resisted.
Ans. He is as •ssentially a King, as a hereditary, yea as an absolute Prince, and no lesse the Lords annoynted then another prince, if then one, also another may be resisted.
Obj. 4. The oath of God bindeth the subjects. Ergo, they must obey, not resist.
Ans. Obedience and resistance are very consistent. 2. No doubt the people gave their oath to Athaliah, but to her as the only heir of the crown, they not knowing, that Joash the lawful heir was living, so may conditional oaths (all of this kind are conditional) in which there is interpretative and virtual ignorance, be broken, as the people swear loyalty to such a man conceived to be a father, he after that turneth Tyrant, may they not resist his Tyranny? they may. Also no doubt Israel g•ve their oath of loyalty to Jabin, (for when Nebuchadnezzar subdued Judah he took an oath of loyalty of their King.) Yet many of Zebulun, Naphtali, and Issachar, Barack leading them, conspired against Jabin.
Ans. Obedience and resistance are very consistent. 2. No doubt the people gave their oath to Athaliah, but to her as the onely heir of the crown, they not knowing, that Ioash the lawfull heir was liveing, so may conditionall oaths (all of this kinde are conditionall) in which there is interpretative and virtuall ignorance, be broken, as the people swear loyalty to such a man conceived to be a father, he after that turneth Tyrant, may they not resist his Tyranny? they may. Also no doubt Israel g•ve their oath of loyalty to Iabin, (for when Nebuchadnezer subdued Iudah he took an oath of loyalty of their King.) Yet many of Zabulon, Nepthali, and Isachar, Barack leading them, conspired against Iabin.