A92147:1023
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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5. If the estates create the King, and make this man King, not this1 man, as is clear Deut. 17. 18. and 2 Chron. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. they give to him the power of the Sword, and the power of War, and the Militia, and I shall judge it strange and reasonless, that the power given to the King, by the Parliament or estates of a free Kingdom, (such as Scotland is acknowledged to be, by all) should create, regulate, limit, abridge, yea and annul that power that created it self, hath God ordained a Parliamentary power to create a Royal power of the sword and war to be placed in the King, the Parliaments creature, for the safety of Parliament and Kingdom, which yet is destructive of it self? D. Ferne saith that the King summoneth a Parliament, and giveth them power to be a Parliament, and to advise and counsel him; and in the mean time Scripture saith, Deut▪ 17. 18, 19, 20. 1 Sam. 10 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. 2 Sam. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. that the Parliament createth the King, heir's admirable reciprocation of creation in policy, and shall God make the mother to destroy the daughter? The Parliamentary power that giveth Crown, Militia, sword and all to the King, must give power to the King to use sword and war for the destruction of the Kingdom, and to annul all the power of Parliaments, to make, unmake Parliaments, and all Parliamentary power; what more absurd?
5. If the estates create the King, and make this man King, not this1 man, as is clear Deut. 17. 18. and 2 Chron. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. they give to him the power of the Sword, and the power of War, and the Militia, and I shall judge it strange and reasonlesse, that the power given to the King, by the Parliament or estates of a free Kingdom, (such as Scotland is acknowledged to be, by all) should create, regulate, limit, abridge, yea and anull that power that created it self, hath God ordained a Parliamentary power to create a Royal power of the sword and war to be placed in the King, the Parliaments creature, for the safety of Parliament and Kingdome, which yet is destructive of it selfe? D. Ferne saith that the King summoneth a Parliament, and giveth them power to be a Parliament, and to advise and counsell him; and in the meane time Scripture saith, Deut 17. 18, 19, 20.