A92147:1339
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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The 1. Parl. of K. James the 6. 1567. approveth the Acts, Parl. 1560. conceived only in name of the States, without the King and Queen, who had deserted the same. So saith the Act, 2. 5. 4. 20. 28. And so this Parliament, wanting the King and Queens authority, is confirmed, Parl. 1572. Act. 51. K. Ja. 6. and Parl. 1581. Act. 1. and Parl. 1581. Act. 115. in which it is declared, That they have been Common laws from their first Date: and all are ratified, Parl. 1587. and Parl. 1592. Act. 1. and stand ratified to this day, by K. Charles his Parliament, An. 1633. The Act of the Assembly, 1566. commendeth that Parliament, 1560. as the most lawful and free Parliament that ever was in the Kingdom.
The 1. Parl. of K. Iames the 6. 1567. approveth the Acts, Parl. 1560. conceived only in name of the States, without the King and Queen, who had deserted the same. So saith the Act, 2. 5. 4. 20. 28. And so this Parliament, wanting the King and Queenes authoritie, is confirmed, Parl. 1572. Act. 51. K. Ia. 6. and Parl. 1581. Act. 1. and Parl. 1581. Act. 115. in which it is declared, That they have been Common lawes from their first Date: and all are ratified, Parl. 1587. and Parl. 1592. Act. 1. and stand ratified to this day, by K. Charles his Parliament, An. 1633. The Act of the Assemblie, 1566. commendeth that Parliament, 1560. as the most lawfull and free Parliament that ever was in the Kingdome.
Yea, even Parl. 1641. King Charles himself being present, an Act was passed upon the occasion of the Kings illegal imprisoning of the Laird of Langtoune, That the King hath no power to imprison any Member of the Parliament, without consent of the Parliament: Which Act, to the great prejudice of the liberty of the Subject, should not have been left unprinted: for, by what Law the King may imprison one Member of the Parliament, by that same reason he may imprison two, and twenty, and a hundred: and so may he clap up the whole Free Estates; and where shall then the highest Court of the Kingdom be?