A92147:1303
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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Ans. The Princes and Judges of the Land are a company of factious men, and so no Parliament, no Court, but at best some good advisers of a King to break up the Parliament, because they refuse Subsidies, that he may by a lawless way extort Subsidies.
Ans. The Princes and Iudges of the Land are a company of factious men, and so no Parliament, no Court, but at best some good advisers of a King to breake up the Parliament, because they refuse Subsidies, that he may by a lawlesse way extort Subsidies.
8. He desireth the Parliament may sit a short time, that they may not well understand one another.
Ans. He loveth short, or no justice from the Parliament, he feareth they reform Gods house, and execute justice on men like himself. But I return to the Scottish Parliament.
Ans. He loveth short, or no justice from the Parliament, he feareth they reforme Gods house, and execute justice on men like himselfe. But I returne to the Scotish Parliament.
Assert. 2. The Parliament is to regulate the power of the King.