A92147:119
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 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.
QUEST. XVII. Whether or no, the Prince have properly the fiduciary or ministerial power of a Tutor, Husband, Patron, Minister, Head, Master of a Family, not of a lord or dominator. Affirmed, p. 124. The King a Tutor rather then a Father, as these are distinguished▪ ibid. A free Community not properly, and in all respects, a minor and pupil, p. 125. The Kings power not properly marital and husbandly. ibid. The King a Patron, and Servant. pag. 126. The Royal power only from God, Immediatione simplicis constitutionis, & solum solitudine causae primae, but not Immediatione applicationis dignitatis ad personam. pag. 126. The King the Servant of the people both objectively, and subjectively. pag. 127. The Lord and the people by one and the same act according to the Physical relation maketh the King. ibid. The King head of the people Metaphorically only, not essentially, not univocally by 6. Argu. pag. 128. His power fiduciary only. pag. 129,