A92147:117
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. 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. ⟨image 14⟩The Covenant giveth a mutual coactive power to King and people, to compel each other, though there be not one in earth higher then both to compel each of them. pag. 100. The Covenant bindeth the King as King, not as he is a man only. pag. 101. One or two Tyrannous acts deprive not the King of his Royal right. pag. 104. Though there were no positive written Covenant (which yet we grant not) yet there is a natural, tacit, implicit Covenant tying the King, by the nature of his Office. pag. 106 If the King be made King, absolutely, it is contrary to Scripture, and the nature of his Office. pag. 107. The people given to the King as a pledge, not as if they became his own to dispose of at his absolute will. pag. 108. The King could not buy, sell, borrow, if no Covenant should tie him to men. ibid. The Covenant sworn by Judah, 2 Chro. 15. tied the King. pag. 109.
QUEST. XIV. Whether or no the people make a Person their King conditionally, or absolutely; and whether the King be tyed by any such covenant? pag. 96. The King under a naturall, but no civill obligation to the people, as Royalists teach. ibid. The Covenant civilly tyeth 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 Iustice and Religion, no lesse then the King. pag. 98. In so farre as the King presseth a false Religion on the people, eatenus, in so farre they are understood not to have a King. pag. 99. ⟨image 14⟩