A92147:116
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. XIII. Whether or no Royal Dignity have its spring from Nature, and how that is true (every man is borne free) and how servitude is contrary to nature; Affir. 89. Seven sorts of superiority and inferiority. pag. 89, 90. Power of life and death from a positive Law. ibid. A Dominion antecedent and consequent. 90. Kings and subjects no natural order. ibid. A man is borne, consequenter, in politic relation. pag. 91. Slavery not natural from four reasons. ibid. Every man borne free in regard of civill subjection (not in regard of natural, such as of children, and wife to Parents and Husband) proved by seven Arguments. pag. 91, 92, 93. Politic Government how necessary, how natural. pag. 94. That Parents should enslave their children, not natural. pag. 95.
QUEST. XIII. Whether or no Royall Dignity have its spring from Nature, and how that is true (every man is borne free) and how servitude is contrary to nature; Affir. 89. Seven sorts of superiority and inferiority. pag. 89, 90. Power of life and death from a positive Law. ibid. A Dominion antecedent and consequent. 90. Kings and subjects no naturall order. ibid. A man is borne, consequenter, in politick relation. pag. 91. Slavery not naturall from four reasons. ibid. Every man borne free in regard of civill subjection (not in regard of naturall, such as of children, and wife to Parents and Husband) proved by seven Arguments. pag. 91, 92, 93. Politique Government how necessary, how naturall. pag. 94. That Parents should inslave their children, not naturall. pag. 95.
QUEST. XIV. Whether or no the people make a Person their King conditionally, or absolutely; and whether the King be tied by any such covenant? pag. 96. The King under a natural, but no civill obligation to the people, as Royalists teach. ibid. The Covenant civilly tieth the King, proved by Scriptures and reasons, by 8. Argu. ibid. & sequent. If the condition without which one of the parties would never have entered in Covenant, be not performed, that party is loosed from the Covenant. pag. 97. The people and Princes are obliged in their places for Justice and Religion, no less then the King. pag. 98. In so far as the King presseth a false Religion on the people, eatenus, in so far they are understood not to have a King. pag. 99.