A92147:965
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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Obj. 7. Exod. 22. 28. Thou shalt not revile the Gods, nor curse the Ruler of the people. Exod. 10▪ 20. Curse not the King, no not in thy thought, nor the rich in thy bed-chamber.
Ans. 1. The word Elohim signifieth all judges, and [Greek or Hebrew], nasi signifieth one lifted up above the people, saith Rivetus in loc. whether a monarch, or many rulers. All cursing of any is unlawful, even of a private man, Rom. 12. 14. Ergo we may not resist a private man by this: the other text readeth, contemn not the King. [Greek or Hebrew] in scientiâ tuâ. Aria. Mon. or in thy conscience or thought: and it may prove resisting any rich man to be unlawful. Nothing in word or deed tending to the dishonour of the King may be done, now to resist him in self-defence, being a commandment of God in the law of nature cannot fight with another commandment to honour the King, no more then the fifth commandment can fight with the sixth, for all resistance is against the judge, as a man exceeding the limits of his office, in that, wherein he is resisted, not as a judge.
Ans. 1. The word Elohim signifieth all judges, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, nasi fignifieth one lifted up above the people, saith Rivetus in loc. whether a monarch, or many rulers. All cursing of any is unlawfull, even of a private man, Rom. 12. 14. Ergo we may not resist a private man by this: the other text readeth, contemne not the King. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in scientiâ tuâ. Aria. Mon. or in thy conscience or thought: and it may prove resisting any rich man to be unlawfull. Nothing in word or deed tending to the dishonour of the King may be done, now to resist him in self-defence, being a commandment of God in the law of nature cannot fight with another commandment to honour the King, no more then the fift commandement can figh with the sixth, for all resistance is against the judge, as a man exceeding the limits of his office, in that, wherein he is resisted, not as a judge.