A92147:269
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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the people is to suffer much before they resume their power, but this Court slave will have the people to do what he did not himself, for when King and Parliament summoned him, was he not obliged to appeare? Non-compearance when lawful, royal, and Parliamentary power summoneth, is no less resistance, then taking of Forts and Castles.
the people is to suffer much before they resume their power, but this Court slave will have the people to doe what he did not himselfe, for when King and Parliament summoned him, was he not obliged to appeare? Non-compearance when lawfull, royall, and Parliamentory power summoneth, is no lesse resistance, then taking of Forts and Castles.
P. Prelate. Then this super-intending power in people, may call a King to account, and punish him for any misdemeanour, or act of injustice. Why might not the people of Israels Peers, or Sanhedrin have convented David before them, judged and punished him for his▪ Adultery with Bathsheba, and his murder of Uriah; but it is holden by all, that Tyranny should be an intended universal, total, manifest destruction of the whole Common-wealth, which cannot fall in the thoughts of any but a mad man. What is recorded in the Story of Nero his wish in this kind, may be rather judged the expression of transported passion, then a fixed resolution.
P. Prelate. Then this super-intending power in people, may call a King to accompt, and punish him for any misdemeanour, or act of injustice. Why might not the people of Israels Peeres, or Sanedrin have convented David before them, judged and punished him for his▪ Adultery with Bathsheba, and his murther of Uriah; but it is holden by all, that Tyranny should be an intended universall, totall, manifest destruction of the whole Common-wealth, which cannot fall in the thoughts of any but a mad man. What is recorded in the Story of Nero his wish in this kind, may be rather judged the expression of transported passion, then a fixed resolution.