A92147:1271
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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and their liberty to resist his breaking of Covenant with them, or Treaties with foreign Nations; Ye shall consider, 1. That the Kings of Scotland are obliged, before they be inaugurate, ⟨p. 440⟩to swear and make their faithful Covenant to the true Kirk of God, that they shall maintain, defend, and set forward the true Religion confessed and established within this Realm; even as they are obliged and astricted by the Law of God, as well in Deuteronomy, as in the 11 chap. of the 2. book of the Kings; and as they crave obedience of their subjects. So that the bond and contract shall be mutual and reciprocal, in all time coming, between the Prince and the People, according to the Word of God; as is fully expressed in the Register of the convention of Estates, July 1567.
and their libertie to resist his breaking of Covenant with them, or Treaties with forraigne Nations; Ye shall consider, 1. That the Kings of Scotland are obliged, before they be inaugurate, ⟨p. 440⟩to sweare and make their faithfull Covenant to the true Kirk of God, that they shall maintaine, defend, and set forward the true Religion confessed and established within this Realme; even as they are obliged and astricted by the Law of God, as well in Deuteronomie, as in the 11 chap. of the 2. book of the Kings; and as they crave obedience of their subjects. So that the bond and contract shall be mutuall and reciprocall, in all time comming, between the Prince and the People, according to the Word of God; as is fully exprest in the Register of the convention of Estates, Iuly 1567.
2. That important Acts and Sentences at home, (whereof one is printed, 112 Act. Parl. 14. K. Ja. 3.) and in Treaties with Foreign Princes, the Estates of Parliament did append their several Seals1 with the Kings Great Seal, (which to Grotius, Barclaius, and A• nisaeus, is an undeniable argument of a limited Prince, as well as the stile of our Parliament, that the Estates with the King, ordain, ratify, rescind, &c.) as also they were obliged, in case of the Kings breaking these Treaties, to resist him therein, even by arms, and that without any breach of their allegiance, or of his Prerogative; as is yet extant in the records of our old Treaties with England and France, &c. But to go on, and leave some high mysteries unto a rejoinder.