A92147:1359
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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Quest. 12. Whether or no is not the Common-wealth ever a Pupil, never growing to age, as a minor under nonage doth come not to need a Tutor, but the Common-wealth being still in need of a Tutor, a Governor, or King, must always be a Tutor, and so the Kingdom can never come to that condition, as to accuse the King, it always being minor?] Ans. 1. Then can they never accuse inferior Judges, for a Kingdom is perpetually in such a nonage, as it cannot want them, when sometime it wanteth a King. 2. Can the Common-wealth under Democracy and Aristocracy being perpetually under nonage, ever then quarrel at these Governments, and never seek a King? by this reason they cannot. 3. The King in all respects is not a Tutor, every comparison in something beareth a Leg; for the Common-wealth, in their own persons do choose a King. 2. Complain of a King. 3. Resist an Uzziah. 4. Tie their elective Prince to a Law; a Pupil cannot choose his Tutor, either his dying Father, or the living Law doth that service for him; he cannot resist his Tutor, he cannot tie his Tutor to a Law, nor limit him, when first he chooseth him. Pupillo non licet postulare Tutorem suspecti, quamdiu sub tutela est, & manet impubes. l. Pietatis 6. in fin. C. de susp. Tutor. l. impuberem. 7. & §. Impuberes. Just. eod.
Quest. 12. Whether or no is not the Common-wealth ever a Pupill, never growing to age, as a minor under nonage doth come not to need a Tutor, but the Common-wealth being still in need of a Tutor, a Governour, or King, must alwaies be a Tutor, and so the Kingdome can never come to that condition, as to accuse the King, it alwaies being minor?] Ans. 1. Then can they never accuse inferiour Iudges, for a Kingdome is perpetually in such a nonage, as it cannot want them, when sometime it wanteth a King. 2. Can the Common-wealth under Democracy and Aristocracy being perpetually under nonage, ever then quarrell at these Governments, and never seeke a King? by this reason they cannot. 3. The King in all respects is not a Tutor, every comparison in something beareth a Leg; for the Common-wealth, in their owne persons doe choose a King. 2. Complaine of a King. 3. Resist an Ʋzziah. 4. Tye their elective Prince to a Law; a Pupill cannot choose his Tutor, either his dying Father, or the living Law doth that service for him; he cannot resist his Tutor, he cannot tye his Tutor to a Law, nor limit him, when first he chooseth him. Pupillo non licet postulare Tutorem suspecti, quamdiu sub tutela est, & manet impubes. l. Pietatis 6. in fin. C. de susp. Tutor. l. impuberem. 7. & §. Impuberes. Iust. eod.