A92147:140
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. XXXVII. Whether the Estates of Scotland are to help their Brethren the protestants in England against Cavaliers? Affirmatur, proved by 13. Arg. p. 378. seq. Helping of neighbour Nations lawful, divers opinions concerning the point. p. 378, 379. ⟨image 20⟩The Law of Egypt against those that helped not the oppressed, p. 380.
QUEST. XXXVII. Whether the Estates of Scotland are to help their Brethren the protestants in England against Cavaliers? Affirmatur, proved by 13. Arg. p. 378. seq. Helping of neighbour Nations lawfull, divers opinions concerning the point. p. 378, 379. ⟨image 20⟩The Law of Aegypt against those that helped not the oppressed, p. 380.
QUEST. XXXVIII. Whether Monarchy be the best of Governments. Affir. p. 384. Whether Monarchy be the best of Governments hath divers considerations, in which each one may be less or more convenient. p. 384, 385. Absolute Monarchy is the worst of Governments. p. 385. Better want power to do ill as have it, ibid. A mixture sweetest of all Governments, p. 387. Neither King nor Parliament have a voice against Law and reason, ibid.
QVEST. XXXVIII. Whether Monarchy be the best of Governments. Affir. p. 384. Whether Monarchy be the best of Governments hath divers considerations, in which each one may be lesse or more convenient. p. 384, 385. Absolute Monarchy is the worst of Governments. p. 385. Better want power to doe ill as have it, ibid. A mixture sweetest of all Governments, p. 387. Neither King nor Parliament have a voyce against Law and reason, ibid.