A92147:1277
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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1. Because the King requireth help, when by his Office he is obliged to require our help and counsel against Papists and Malignants, though as misled, he should command the contrary: so if the Law require our help, the King requireth it ex officio.
1. Because the King requireth helpe, when by his Office he is obliged to require our helpe and counsell against Papists and Malignants, though as misled, he should command the contrary: so if the Law require our helpe, the King requireth it ex officio.
2. This should expressly contradict our confession, if none were ⟨p. 442⟩obliged to give help and counsel to the Parliament and Estates, except the King in his own person should require it, because Art. 14. it is expressly said, That to save the lives of innocents, or repress Tyranny, to defend the oppressed,—not to suffer innocent blood to be shed; or works pleasing to God, which he rewardeth. Now we are not to think in reason, if the King shall be induced by wicked Counsel, to do tyrannical works, and to raise Papists in Arms against Protestants, that God doth by him as by his Lieutenant, require our help, comfort and counsel, in assisting the King in acts of Tyranny, and in oppression, and in shedding innocent blood; yea our confession tieth us to deny help and comfort to the King in these wicked acts, and therefore our help must be in the things that pertaineth to his Royal Office, and duty only; otherwise we are to repress all tyranny, art 14.
2. This should expresly contradict our confession, if none were ⟨p. 442⟩obliged to give helpe and counsell to the Parliament and Estates, except the King in his own person should require it, because Art. 14. it is expresly said, That to save the lives of innocents, or represse Tyranny, to defend the oppressed,—not to suffer innocent blood to be shed; or workes pleasing to God, which he rewardeth. Now we are not to thinke in reason, if the King shall be induced by wicked Counsell, to doe tyrannicall workes, and to raise Papists in Armes against Protestants, that God doth by him as by his Lieutenant, require our helpe, comfort and counsell, in assisting the King in acts of Tyranny, and in oppression, and in shedding innocent blood; yea our confession tyeth us to deny helpe and comfort to the King in these wicked acts, and therefore our helpe must be in the things that pertaineth to his Royall Office, and duty only; otherwise we are to represse all tyranny, art 14.