A92147:1111
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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Answ. 1. Arnisaeus divideth oaths that are to be conjoined, we read not that Kings swear to defend Religion in one oath, and to administrate judgement and justice in another: for David made not two Covenants, but only one with all Israel. 2. The King was not King while he did swear this oath, and therefore it must be a pactional oath between him and the Kingdom, and it is true the King receiveth not a Crown from the Church, yet David received a Crown from the Church, for this end, to feed the Lords people, and so conditionally. Papir Mass l. 3. Chron. Gal. saith, The king1 was not king before the oath. 2. That he did swear to be a keeper not only of the first, but also of the second Table of the Law. Ego N. Dei gratia, mox futur as rex Francorum, in die ordinationis meae coram Deo, & sanctis ejus polliceor, quod servabo privilegia canonica, justitiamque & jus unicuique Praelato debitum, vosque defendam, Deo juvante, quantum potero, quemadmodum Rex ex officio in suo regno defendere debet, unumquemque Episcopum ac Ecclesiam, & administrabo populo justitiam & leges, uti jus postulat. And so is it ordained in the Council of Tolet 6. c. 6. Quisquis deinceps regni sortitus fuerit apicem, non ante conscendat Regiam sedem, quam inter reliquas conditions sacramento policitus fuerit, quod non sinet in regno suo degere •um qui non sit Catholicus. All these by Scripture are oaths of Covenant, Deut. 17. ver. 17, 18. 2 Sam. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. 2 Kings 11. 17, 18.
Answ. 1. Arnisaeus divideth oathes that are to be conjoyned, we read not that Kings sweare to defend Religion in one oath, and to administrate judgement and justice in another: for David made not two Covenants, but onely one with all Israel. 2. The King was not King while he did swear this oath, and therefore it must be a pactionall oath between him and the Kingdom, and it is true the King receiveth not a Crown from the Church, yet David received a Crowne from the Church, for this end, to feed the Lords people, and so conditionally. Papir Masse l. 3. Chron. Gal. saith, The king1