A92147:1321
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Eugenius 62. K. a wicked Prince, was put to death by the Parliament, Omnibus in ejus exitium, consentientibus.
Eugenius 7. the 59. K. was judicially accused, and absolved by the States, of killing his Wife Spondana.
Donaldus the 70. K. is censured by a Parliament which convened ⟨p. 451⟩Pro salute Reipublicae, for the good of the Land. So Ethus the 72. K. Ne unius culpâ, regnum periret.
Gregorius the 73. K. sweareth to maintain Kirk and State in their liberties; the Oath is ordained to be sworn by all Kings at their Coronation.
Gregorius the 73. K. sweareth to maintaine Kirk and State in their liberties; the Oath is ordained to be sworne by all Kings at their Coronation.