A92147:1108
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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Arnisaeus q. 6. An princeps qui jurat subditis, &c. n. 2. saith, This occasioneth confusion and sedition. The Egyptians (saith he) cast off P•olomeus, because he affected too much the name of a King of the Romans his own friend, Dion. l. 9. The States punished Archidanius because he married a wife of a low stature, Plutarch. in Ages. in pris. The ancient Burgundians thought it cause enough to expel their King, if matters went not well in the State, Marcel. l. 27. The Goths in Spain gave no other cause of expelling their King, nisi quod sibi displiceret, because he displeased them. Aimon. l. 2. c. 20. l. 4. c. 35.
Arnisaeus q. 6. An princeps qui jurat subditis, &c. n. 2. saith, This occasioneth confusion and sedition. The Egyptians (saith he) cast off P•olomeus, because he affected too much the name of a King of the Romans his own friend, Dion. l. 9. The States punished Archidanius because he married a wife of a low stature, Plutarch. in Ages. in pris. The ancient Burgundions thought it cause enough to expell their King, if matters went not well in the State, Marcel. l. 27. The Goths in Spain gave no other cause of expelling their King, nisi quod sibi displiceret, because he displeased them. Aimon. l. 2. c. 20. l. 4. c. 35.
Ans. All these are not to be excused in people, but neither every abuse of power in a King exautorateth a King, nor every abuse in people, can make null their power.
Arnisaeus maketh three kinds of oaths: the first is, when the King1 sweareth to defend true Religion, and the Pope, and he denieth that this is an oath of fidelity, or by paction or covenant made to the Pope or Clergy, he saith it is only on oath of protection, nor doth the King receive the Crown from the Pope or Clergy.