A92147:1272
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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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.
2. That important Acts and Sentences at home, (whereof one is printed, 112 Act. Parl. 14. K. Ia. 3.) and in Treaties with Forraigne Princes, the Estates of Parliament did append their severall Seales1 with the Kings Great Seale, (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, ordaine, ratifie, rescind, &c.) as also they were obliged, in case of the Kings breaking these Treaties, to resist him therein, even by armes, 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 goe on, and leave some high mysteries unto a rejoynder.
- 1The Estates of Parliament do append their collateral Seals with the Great Seal, in Treaties with foreign Princes.The Estates of Parliament do append their collaterall Seales with the Great Seal, in Treaties with forraigne Princes.