A92147:1268
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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but neither at all over the Laws, nor over the Estates, taken Conjunctim, and as convened in Parliament, as is clear, both by the two immediately subsequent Acts of that Parliament 8. K. Jam. 6. Establishing the Authority of Parliaments, equally with the Kings, and discharging all Jurisdictions (albeit granted by the King) without their Warrant; as also by the Narrative Depositive words, and certification of the Act it self: otherwayes, the Estates convened in Parliament, might by virtue of that Act, be summoned before, and censured by the Kings Majesty or His Council a Judicatory substitute be, subordinate to, and censurable by themselves, which were contrary to sense and reason. 4. The very terms of Supreme Judge, and in all Causes, according to the nature of Correlates, presupposeth Courts, and judicial Proceedings and Laws, as the ground work and rule of all, not a freedom from them. 5. The sixth Act of the twenty Parliament, K. Jac. 6. Clearly interpreteth what is meant by the Kings Jurisdiction in all Spiritual and Ecclesiastic Causes: to wit, to be only in the Consistorial Causes of Matrimony, Testaments, Bastardy▪ Adulteries, abusively called Spiritual Causes, because ⟨p. 438⟩handled in Commissary Courts, wherein the King appoints the Commissary, his Deputies, and makes the Lords of the Session his great Consistory in all Ecclesiastical Causes, with reservation of his Supremacy and Prerogative therein.
but neither at all over the Laws, nor over the Estates, taken Conjunctim, and as convened in Parliament, as is clear, both by the two immediately subsequent Acts of that Parliament 8. K. Iam. 6. Establishing the Authority of Parliaments, equally with the Kings, and discharging all Iurisdictions (albeit granted by the King) without their Warrant; as also by the Narrative Depositive words, and certification of the Act it self: otherwayes, the Estates convened in Parliament, might by vertue of that Act, be summoned before, and censured by the Kings Majestie or His Councell a Iudicatory substitute be, subordinate to, and censurable by themselves, which were contrary to sense and reason. 4. The very termes of Supreme Iudge, and in all Causes, according to the nature of Correlates, presupposeth Courts, and judiciall Proceedings and Laws, as the ground work and rule of all, not a freedom from them. 5. The sixth Act of the twenty Parliament, K. Iac. 6. Cleerly interpreteth what is meant by the Kings Iurisdiction in all Spirituall and Ecclesiastick Causes: to wit, to be onely in the Consistoriall Causes of Matrimony, Testaments, Bastardy Adulteries, abusively called Spirituall Causes, because