A92147:1363
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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Ans. There is no question, in active subjection to Princes and1 Fathers commanding in the Lord, we shall grant as high a measure as you desire. But the question is, if either active subjection to ill and unjust mandates, or passive subjection to penal inflictions of Tyranny and abused power, be natural, or most natural? or if Subjects do renounce natural subjection to their Prince, when they oppose violence to unjust violence. This is to beg the question. And for the Commonwealth of B•es and Cranes, and Crown and Sceptre amongst them, Give me leave to doubt of it. To be subject to Kings, is a Divine moral Law of God; but not properly natural to be subject to coaction of the Sword. Government and subjection to Parents, is natural: But that a King is juris naturae strictim, I must crave leave to doubt. I hold him to be a Divine moral Ordinance, to which, in conscience, we are to submit in the Lord.
Ans. There is no question, in active subjection to Princes and1 Fathers commanding in the Lord, we shall grant as high a measure as you desire. But the question is, if either active subjection to ill and unjust mandates, or passive subjection to penall inflictions of Tyrannie and abused power, be naturall, or most naturall? or if Subjects doe renounce naturall subjection to their Prince, when they oppose violence to unjust violence. This is to beg the question. And for the Commonwealth of B•es and Cranes, and Crown and Scepter amongst them, Give me leave to doubt of it. To be subject to Kings, is a Divine morall Law of God; but not properly naturall to be subject to coaction of the Sword. Government and subjection to Parents, is naturall: But that a King is juris naturae strictim, I must crave leave to doubt. I hold him to be a Divine morall Ordinance, to which, in conscience, we are to submit in the Lord.
- 1Subjects in active obedience must subject to a Kings lawful commandment: but in things unlawful, they are not naturally subject, in passive subjection.Subjects in active obedience must subject to a Kings lawfull commandement: but in things unlawfull, they are not naturally subject, in passive subjection.