A92147:1333
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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K. James the 1. could not do any thing in his Oath in England. The Parliaments approbation of the Battle at Stirling against King James the 3. is set down in the printed Acts, because he had not the consent of the States.
K. James the 1. could not doe any thing in his Oath in England. The Parliaments approbation of the Battell at Stirling against King Iames the 3. is set downe in the printed Acts, because he had not the consent of the States.
To come to our first Reformation, Queen Regent breaking her promise to the States, said, Faith of promise should not be sought from Princes; the States answered, That they then were not obliged to obey, and suspended her government as inconsistent with the duty of Princes, by the Articles of pacification at Leith, Anno 1560. Junii 16. No peace or war can be without the States.
To come to our first Reformation, Queene Regent breaking her promise to the States, said, Faith of promise should not be sought from Princes; the States answered, That they then were not obliged to obey, and suspended her government as inconsistent with the duty of Princes, by the Articles of pacification at Leith, Anno 1560. Iunii 16. No peace or warre can be without the States.
In the Parliament thereafter, Anno 1560. the Nobility say frequently to the Queen, Regum Scotorum limitatum esse imperium, nec unquam adunius libidinem, sed ad legum praescriptum & nobilitatis consensum regisolitum.
In the Parliament thereafter, Anno 1560. the Nobility say frequently to the Queene, Regum Scotorum limitatum esse imperium, nec unquam adunius libidinem, sed ad legum praescriptum & nobilitatis consensum regisolitum.