A92147:1337
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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Three Parliaments of K. James the 2. are holden without any mention of the King, as Anno 1437. Anno 1438. Anno 1440. and the 5. and 6. Act of Parl. 1440. the Estates ordain the King to do such and such things, to ride through the country for doing of Justice. And Parl. 1. K. James 1. Act. 23. the Estates ordained the King to mend his money. But show any Parliament where ever the King doth prescribe Laws to the States, or censure the States.
Three Parliaments of K. Iames the 2. are holden without any mention of the King, as Anno 1437. Anno 1438. Anno 1440. and the 5. and 6. Act of Parl. 1440. the Estates ordaine the King to doe such and such things, to ride through the country for doing of Iustice. And Parl. 1. K. Iames 1. Act. 23. the Estates ordained the King to mend his money. But shew any Parliament where ever the King doth prescribe Lawes to the States, or censure the States.
In the 1. Parl. of K. James the 6. the Confession of Faith being ratified, in Acts made by the three Estates, that the Kings must swear at their Coronation. In the presence of the eternal God, that they shall maintain the true Religion, right Preaching, and administration ⟨p. 453⟩of the Sacraments now received and preached within this Realm: and shall abolish and gain-stand all false Religions contrary to the same: and shall rule the people committed to their charge, according to the will of God, laudable Laws and Constitutions of the Realm, &c.
In the 1. Parl. of K. Iames the 6. the Confession of Faith being ratified, in Acts made by the three Estates, that the Kings must sweare at their Coronation. In the presence of the eternall God, that they shall maintaine the true Religion, right Preaching, and administration