A92147:128
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. XXV. Whether the supreme Law, the safety of the people, be above the King? Affirmed, p. 218. The safety of the people to be preferred to the King, for the King is not to seek himself, but the good of the people, p. 218, 219. Royalists make no Kings, but Tyrants, p. 222. How the safety of the King is the safety of the people, p. 223. A King for the safety of the people, may break through the Letter and paper of a Law, p. 227. The Kings prerogative above Law and Reason, not comparable to the blood that has been shed in Ireland and England, p. 225, 226, 228. The power of Dictators prove not a Prerogative above Law, p. 229, 230.
QUEST. XXV. Whether the supreme Law, the safetie of the people, be above the King? Affirmed, p. 218. The safetie of the people to be preferred to the King, for the King is not to seek himself, but the good of the people, p. 218, 219. Royalists make no Kings, but Tyrants, p. 222. How the safetie of the King is the safetie of the people, p. 223. A King for the safetie of the people, may break through the Letter and paper of a Law, p. 227. The Kings prerogative above Law and Reason, not comparable to the blood that has been shed in Ireland and England, p. 225, 226, 228. The power of Dictators prove not a Prerogative above Law, p. 229, 230.
QUEST. XXVI. Whether the King be above the Law? p. 230, 231. The Law above the King in four things, 1. In constitution, 2. Direction, 3. Limitation, 4. Coaction, p. 231. In what sense the King may do all things, p. 231, 232. The King under the morality of Laws. 2. Under Fundamental Laws, not under punishment to be inflicted by himself, nor because ⟨image 18⟩of the eminency of his place, but for the physical incongruity thereof, p. 232, 233. If, and how the King may punish himself? p. 233. That the King transgressing in a heinous manner, is under the Coaction of Law, proved by seven Arguments, p. 234, 235, seq. The Coronation of a King, who is supposed to be a just Prince, yet proveth after a Tyrant, is conditional, and from ignorance, and so unvoluntary; and in so far, not obligatory in Law, p. 234, 235. Royalists confess, a Tyrant in exercise may be dethroned, p. 235, 236. How the people is the seat of the power of Sovereignty, p. 239, 240. The place,