A92147:1308
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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Finnanus R. 10. Decreed; Ne quid Reges, quod majoris esset momenti, nisi de publici consilii authoritate juberent, & ne domestico consilio remp. administrarent, regia publicaque negotia non sine patrum consultation ductuque tractarentur, nec bellum pacem aut faedera reges per se patrum, Tribuumve, Rectorum injussu facerent, demerentue. Then it is clear, that Parliaments were consorts imperii, and had Authority with, and above the King. When a Law is made that the Kings should do nothing, Injussu rectorum tribuum, without commandment of the Parliament, a Cabinet Counsel was not lawful to the Kings of Scotland. So Durstus Rex XI. sweareth to the Parliament, Se nihil nisi de primorum consilio acturum. That he shall do nothing but by counsel of the Rulers and Heads of the Kingdom.
Finnanus R. 10. Decreed; Ne quid Reges, quod majoris esset momenti, nisi de publici consilii authoritate juberent, & ne domestico consilio remp. administrarent, regia publicaque negotia non sine patrum consultatione ductuque tractarentur, nec bellum pacem aut faedera reges per se patrum, Tribuumve, Rectorum injussu facerent, demerentue. Then it is cleare, that Parliaments were consortes imperii, and had Authority with, and above the King. When a Law is made that the Kings should doe nothing, Injussu rectorum tribuum, without commandement of the Parliament, a Cabinet Counsell was not lawfull to the Kings of Scotland. So Durstus Rex XI. sweareth to the Parliament, Se nihil nisi de primorum consilio acturum. That he shall doe nothing but by counsell of the Rulers and Heads of the Kingdome.
The Parliament rejecting the lawful son of Corbredus the 20, King, because he was young, created Dardanus the son of Metellanus King, which is a great argument of the power of the Scottish Parliament of old for elective, rather then hereditary Kings.
The Parliament rejecting the lawfull sonne of Corbredus the 20, King, because he was young, created Dardanus the sonne of Metellanus King, which is a great argument of the power of the Scottish Parliament of old for elective, rather then hereditary Kings.