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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. XXII. Whether the power of the King as King, be absolute, or dependent, and limited by Gods first mould and pattern of a King? Negatur, Prius, Affirmatur, Posterius, p. 179. The Royalists make the King as absolute as the Great Turk, p. 180. The King not absolute in his power, proved by nine Arguments, p. 181. 182, 183, seq. Why the King is a living Law, p. 184. Power to do ill, not from God, ibid. Royalists say, power to do ill is not from God, but power to do ill as punishable by man, is from God, p. 186. ⟨image 17⟩A King, actu primo, is a plague, and the people slaves, if the King by Gods institution be absolute, p. 187. Absoluteness of Royalty against Justice, Peace, Reason, Law, p. 189. Against the Kings relation of a brother, p. 190. A Damsel forced, may resist the King, ibid. The goodness of an absolute Prince hindereth not, but he is, actu primo, a Tyrant, p. 189.
QUEST. XXII. Whether the power of the King as King, be absolute, or dependent, and limited by Gods first mould and patern of a King? Negatur, Prius, Affirmatur, Posterius, p. 179. The Royalists make the King as absolute as the Great Turk, p. 180. The King not absolute in his power, proved by nine Arguments, p. 181. 182, 183, seq. Why the King is a living Law, p. 184. Power to do ill, not from God, ibid. Royalists say, power to do ill is not from God, but power to do ill as punishable by man, is from God, p. 186. ⟨image 17⟩A King, actu primo, is a plague, and the people slaves, if the King by Gods institution be absolute, p. 187. Absolutenesse of Royaltie against Iustice, Peace, Reason, Law, p. 189. Against the Kings relation of a brother, p. 190. A Damsel forced, may resist the King, ibid. The goodnesse of an absolute Prince hindereth not, but he is, actu primo, a Tyrant, p. 189.
QUEST. XXIII. Whether the King hath a Prerogative Royal above Laws? Negatur, p. 192. Prerogative taken two ways, ibid. Prerogative above Laws, a Garland proper to infinite Majesty, ibid. A threefold dispensation, 1. Of power, 2. Of justice, 3. Of Grace, p. 194. Acts of mere grace, may be acts of blood, p. 195. An oath to the King of Babylon, tied not the people of Judah to all that absolute power could command, ibid. The absolute Prince, is as absolute in acts of cruelty, as in acts of grace, p. 196. Servants are not,