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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. 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, 1 Pet. 2. 18, 19. interdicted of self-defence, p. 199, 200. The Parliament materially only, not formally, hath the King for their Lord, p. 202. Reason not a sufficient restraint to keep a Prince from Acts of tyranny, ibid. Princes have sufficient power to do good, though they have not absolute to do evil. p. 203. A power to shed innocent blood, can be no part of any Royal power given of God, p. 204. The King, because he is a public person, wanteth many privileges that subjects have, p. 205, 206.
QUEST. XXIII. Whether the King hath a Prerogative Royall above Laws? Negatur, p. 192. Prerogative taken two wayes, ibid. Prerogative above Laws, a Garland proper to infinite Majestie, ibid. A threefold dispensation, 1. Of power, 2. Of justice, 3. Of Grace, p. 194. Acts of meer grace, may be acts of blood, p. 195. An oath to the King of Babylon, tyed not the people of Judah to all that absolute power could command, ibid. The absolute Prince, is as absolute in acts of crueltie, as in acts of grace, p. 196. Servants are not, 1 Pet. 2. 18, 19. interdited of self-defence, p. 199, 200. The Parliament materially onely, not formally, hath the King for their Lord, p. 202. Reason not a sufficient restraint to keep a Prince from Acts of tyranny, ibid. Princes have sufficient power to do good, though they have not absolute to do evil. p. 203. A power to shed innocent blood, can be no part of any Royall power given of God, p. 204. The King, because he is a publike person, wanteth many priviledges that subjects have, p. 205, 206.