A92147:1118
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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3. If the King make away a Kingdom given to him by succession, his act is null, and he may be resisted, because the Kingdom is a liferent only to him. Yea saith Barclay, He loseth the Crown.
3. If the King make away a Kingdome given to him by succession, his act is null, and he may be resisted, because the Kingdome is a liferent onely to him. Yea saith Barclay, He loseth the Crown.
4. He loseth his Kingdom, if with a hostile mind he seek the destruction of the Kingdom.
4. He loseth his Kingdom, if with a hostile mind he se•k the destruction of the Kingdome.
5. If such a clause be put in, that if he commit felony, or do such oppressions, the Subjects shall be loosed from the bonds of subjection; then the King failing thus, turneth a private man.
5. If such a clause be put in, that if he commit felonie, or doe such oppressions, the Subjects shall be loosed from the bonds of subjection; then the King failing thus, turneth a private man.