A92147:1334
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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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.
So it is declared, Parliament at Stirling, 1578. and Parl. 1567, concerning Queen Mary, I need not insist here. K. James the 6. Anno 1567. Jul. 21. was Crowned, the Earle of Morton and Humne, jurarunt pro co, & ejus nomine, in leges, eum doctrinam & ritus religionis, quae tum docebantur, publice quoad posset, servaturum, & contrarios oppugnaturum. Buch. Rer. Scot. Hist. l. 18. The three Estates revoke all alienations made by the King without consent of the Parliament. Parliam. K. James, 2