A92147:118
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. XV. Whether the King be univocally or only Analogically and by proportion a father, pag. 111 Adam not King of the whole earth, because a father. ibid. The King a Father Metaphorically and improperly, proved by eight Arguments. ibid. & sequent.
QUEST XVI. Whether or no a despotical or masterly dominion agree to the King, because he is King. Negatur. pag. 116 The King hath no masterly dominion over the Subjects, as if they were his servants. Proved by 4. Arguments. pag. 116. The King not over men as reasonable creatures to domineer. pag. 117. The King cannot give away his Kingdom or his people, as if they were his proper goods. ibid. A violent surrender of liberty tieth not. pag. 119 A surrender of ignorance is in so far, unvoluntary, as it oblige not. ibid. The goods of the subjects not the Kings, proved by 8. Argu. pag. 120. ⟨image 15⟩All the goods of the subjects are the Kings in a four-fold sense. pag. 121.
QUEST XVI. Whether or no a despoticall or masterly dominion agree to the King, because he is King. Negatur. pag. 116 The King hath no masterly dominion over the Subjects, as if they were his servants. Proved by 4. Arguments. pag. 116. The King not over men as reasonable creatures to domineere. pag. 117. The King cannot give away his Kingdome or his people, as if they were his proper goods. ibid. A violent surrender of liberty tyeth not. pag. 119 A surrender of ignorance is in so farre, unvoluntary, as it oblige not. ibid. The goods of the subjects not the Kings, proved by 8. Argu. pag. 120. ⟨image 15⟩All the goods of the subjects are the Kings in a four-fold sence. pag. 121.