A92147:1162
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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And it is most false, that we join with Jesuits. 1. We teach no1 more against Tyrants, in e•ercitio, then Grotius, Barclay, Winzetus, in the matter of deposing Kings. And in this, Royalists conspire with Jesuits. 2. We deny that the Pope may loose Subjects from the oath of Fidelity, when a King turneth Heretical; 3. That People at the Popes commandment, are to dethrone Kings, for Heresy. So do the Prelates, and their fellows the Papists teach. So Gregory the 7. practised: so Aquinas taught, 22 q. 12. ar. 2. Antonin. sum, par. 3. t. 22. c. 3. §. 7. Thou hast put all things under the Popes feet▪ ⟨p. 416⟩oves, id est, Christianos; boves, Judaeos & Hereticos; pecora, Paganos. So Navarre. l. 1. c. 13. Pagans have no jurisdiction. Jaco. Symanca, de Catho. Instit. tit. 45. n. 25. Catholica uxor heretico viro debitum reddere non tenetur. Item. Constat Haeretieum privatum esse omni dominio, naturali, civili, politico, naturali quod habet in filios, nam propter haeresin patris efficiuntur filii sui juris, civili, quod habet in servos, ab eo enim servi liberantur, politico, quod rerum domini habent in subditos, ita Bannes 22. q. 12. art. 10. Gregor. de valent. 22. dis. 1. q. 12. p. 2. lod. Moll. to. 1. De just. & jur. tract. 2. dis. 29. v. 3. 2. Papists hold that Generatio clerici est corruptio subditi, Churchmen are not subjects under the Kings Law. It is a Canonical privilege of the Clergy, that they are not subject to the Kings Civill Laws. Now this Prelate and his fellows made the King swear, at his Coronation, to maintain all Canonical Privileges of the Prelatical Clergy, the very Oath and words sworn by all the Popish Kings.
And it is most false, that we joyne with Jesuites. 1. We teach no1 more against Tyrants, in e•ercitio, then Grotius, Barclay, Winzetus, in the matter of deposing Kings. And in this, Royalists conspire with Jesuites. 2. We deny that the Pope may loose Subjects from the oath of Fidelitie, when a King turneth Hereticall; 3. That People at the Popes commandement, are to dethrone Kings, for Heresie. So doe the Prelates, and their fellowes the Papists teach. So Gregorie the 7. practised: so Aquinas taught, 22 q. 12. ar. 2. Antonin. sum, par. 3. t. 22. c. 3. §. 7. Thou hast put all things under the Popes feet