A92147:1307
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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It is to be considered, that King James in his Basilicon Doron, layeth down an unsound ground, that Fergus the first father of 107 Kings of Scotland, conquered this Kingdom. The contrary whereof ⟨p. 449⟩is asserted by Fordome, Major, Boethius, Buchanan, Hollanshed; who run all upon this Principle, That the Estates of the Kingdom did 1. Choose a Monarchy, and freely, and no other Government. 2. That they freely elected Fergus to be their King. 3. King Fergus 1frequently convened the Parliament, called, Insulanorum Duces, Tribuum Rectors, Majorum consessus, Conventus Ordinum, conventus Statuum, Communitatum Regni, Phylarchi, Primores, Principes, patres, and as Hollanshed saith, they made Fergus King, therefore a Parliament must be before the King; yea and after the death of King Fergus, Philarchi coeunt conci•ne advocatâ, the Estates convened without any King, and made that fundamental Law Regni electivi, That when the Kings Children were minores, any of the Fergusian Race might be chosen to Reign: and this endured to the days of Kennethus: and Redotha, Re•. 7. resigneth and maketh over the2 Government into the hands of the Parliament, and Philarchi & Tribuum Gubernatores ordained Therius the 8. King. Buchanan, l. 4. Rer. Scot. calleth him Reutha, and said he did this, Populo egrè permittente, then the Royal Power recurred to the fountain. Therius the 8. a wicked man, filled the Kingdom with Robberies fearing that the Parliament should punish him, fled to the Britons, and thereupon the Parliament choose Connanus to be Protex, and protector of the Kingdom.
It is to be considered, that King Iames in his Baslicon Doron, layeth down an unsound ground, that Fergus the first father of 107 Kings of Scotland, conquered this Kingdom. The contrary whereof ⟨p. 449⟩is asserted by Fordome, Major, Boethius, Buchannan, Hollanshed; who run all upon this Principle, That the Estates of the Kingdome did 1. Choose a Monarchie, and freely, and no other Government. 2. That they freely elected Fergus to be their King. 3. King Fergus