A92147:1032
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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QUEST. XXXVII. Whether or no it be lawful that the Estates of Scotland help their oppressed brethren the Parliament and Protestants in England against Papists and Prelates now in Arms against them, and killing them, and endeavouring the establishment of Popery, though the King of Scotland should inhibit them?
QUEST. XXXVII. Whether or no it be lawfull that the Estates of Scotland help their oppressed brethren the Parliament and Protestants in England against Papists and Prelates now in Armes against them, and killing them, and •ndevouring the establishment of Poperie, though the King of Scotland should inhibit them?
Marianus saith, one is obliged to help his brother, non vincul• 1essicace, not with any efficacious band, because in these (saith he) non est actio a•t poena, one may not have action of law against his brother, who refuseth to help him; yet (saith he) as man he is obliged to man nexu civilis societatis, by the bond of humane society. Others say, one nation may indirectly defend a neighbour nation2 against a common enemy, because it is a self-defence; and it is presumed that a foreign enemy having overcome the neighbour nation, shall invade that nation it self who denieth help and succour to the neighbour nation, this is a self-opinion, and to me it looketh not like the spiritual Law of God.
MArianus saith, one is obliged to help his brother, non vincul