A92147:1326
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.
Culenus the 79. King, was summoned before the Estates, so before him Constantine the 3. the 75. K. did by Oath resign the Kingdom to the States, and entered in a Monastery at Saint Andrews.
Culenus the 79. King, was summoned before the Estates, so before him Constantine the 3. the 75. K. did by Oath resigne the Kingdome to the States, and entered in a Monastery at Saint Andrewes.
Kenethus the 70. K. procured almost, per vim, saith Buchanan, 1that the Parliament should change the elective Kings in hereditary; observe the Power of Parliaments.
- 1Buchan Rer. Scot. l. 7.
After this Grimus, and then Macbethus, R. 85. is rebuked for1 governing by private counsel, in his time the King is ordained by the States, to swear to maintain the community of the Kingdom.
After this Grimus, and then Macbethus, R. 85. is rebuked for1 governing by private counsell, in his time the King is ordained by the States, to sweare to maintaine the community of the Kingdome.
- 1Coronation Oath.