A92147:258
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. IX. Whether or no Sovereignty is so from the people, that it remaineth in them in some part, so as they may in case of necessity resume it?
QUEST. IX. Whether or no Soveraigntie is so from the people, that it remaineth in them in some part, so as they may in case of necessitie resume it?
The Prelate will have it Babylonish confusion, that we are divided in opinion. Jesuits (saith he) place all Sovereignty in the community. Of the Sectaries; some warrant any one subject to make away his King, and that such a work is no less to be rewarded then when one killeth a wolf: Some say, this power is in the whole Community: some will have it in the collective body, not convened by warrant or writ of Sovereignty, but when necessity (which is often fancied) of reforming State and Church, calleth them together. Some in the Nobles, and Peers, some in the three Estates assembled by the Kings writ, some▪ in the inferior Judges.
THe Prelate will have it Babylonish confusion, that we are divided in opinion. Jesuites (saith he) place all Soveraigntie in the communitie. Of the Sectaries; some warrant any one subject to make away his King, and that such a worke is no lesse to be rewarded then when one killeth a wolfe: Some say, this power is in the whole Communitie: some will have it in the collective body, not conveened by warrant or writ of Soveraignty, but when necessitie (which is often fancied) of reforming State and Church, calleth them together. Some in the Nobles, and Peeres, some in the three Estates assembled by the Kings writ, some▪ in the inferour Iudges.
I answer: If the Prelate were not a Jesuit himself, he would not bid his brethren take the mote out of their eye: but there is nothing