A92147:1030
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. 3. Arnesaeus de jur. Maj. de potest. armorum, c. 5. n. 4. The People is mad and furious, therefore supreme Majesty cannot be secured, and Rebels suppressed, and public Peace kept, if the power of Armour be not in the Kings hand only.
Obj. 3. Arnesaeus de jur. Maj. de potest. armorum, c. 5. n. 4. The People is mad and furious, therefore supreme Majestie cannot be secured, and Rebels suppressed, and publike Peace kept, if the power of Armour be not in the Kings hand only.
Answ. To denude the people of Armour, because they may abuse the Prince, is to expose them to violence and oppression, unjustly; for one King may easilier abuse armour, then all the people; one man may more easily fail, then a Community. 2. The safety of the people is far to be preferred before the safety of one man, though he were two Emperors, one in the East, another in the West, because the Emperor is ordained of God, for the good and safety of the people, ⟨p. 378⟩1 Tim. 2. 2. 3. There can be no inferior Judges to bear the sword, as God requireth, Rom. 13 4. Deut. 1. 15, 16. 2 Chron. 19. 6, 7. and the King must be sole Judge, if he only have the sword, and all armour monopolized to himself.
Answ. To denude the people of Armour, because they may abuse the Prince, is to expose them to violence and oppression, unjustly; for one King may easilier abuse armour, then all the people; one man may more easily fail, then a Community. 2. The safety of the people is far to be preferred before the safety of one man, though he were two Emperours, one in the East, another in the West, because the Emperour is ordained of God, for the good and safety of the people,