A92147:143
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. XL. Whether or no, the people have any power over the King, either by his Oath, Covenant, or any other way? Affirmed, p. 398, 399. The people have power over the King, by reason of his Covenant and Promise, ibid. Covenants and promises violated, infer Coaction, de jure, by Law, though not de facto, p. 399, 400. Mutual punishments may be, where there is no relation of superiority and inferiority, p. 399, 400, 401. Three Covenants made by Arnisaeus, ibid. ⟨image 21⟩The King not King while he swear the oath, and be accepted as King by the people. ibid. The oath of the Kings of France, ibid. Hu. Grotius, setteth down seven cases, in which the people may accuse, punish, or dethrone the King, p. 403, 404. The Prince a noble Vassal of the Kingdom, upon four grounds, p. 405. The covenant had an oath annexed to it, ibid. The Prince is but as a private man in a contract. p. 406. How the Royal power is immediately from God, and yet conferred upon the King by the people, p. 407, 408, 409.
QUEST. XL. Whether or no, the people have any power over the King, either by his Oath, Covenant, or any other way? Affirmed, p. 398, 399. The people have power over the King, by reason of his Covenant and Promise, ibid. Covenants and promises violated, infer Coaction, de jure, by Law, though not de facto, p. 399, 400. Mutuall punishments may be, where there is no relation of superioritie and inferioritie, p. 399, 400, 401. Three Covenants made by Arnisaeus, ibid. ⟨image 21⟩The King not King while he swear the oath, and be accepted as King by the people. ibid. The oath of the Kings of France, ibid. Hu. Grotius, setteth down seven cases, in which the people may accuse, punish, or dethrone the King, p. 403, 404. The Prince a noble Vassal of the Kingdom, upon four grounds, p. 405. The covenant had an oath annexed to it, ibid. The Prince is but as a private man in a contract. p. 406. How the Royall power is immediately from God, and yet conferred upon the King by the people, p. 407, 408, 409.