A92147:273
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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Covaruv. a▪ great Lawyer, saith, 1. that all Civill power is penes 1remp. in the hands of the Common-wealth. 1. Because Nature hath given to man to be a social creature, and impossible he can preserve himself in a society, except he being in community, transform his power to an head. 2. He saith; Hujus vero civilis societatis & resp. rector ab alio quam ab ipsamet repub. constitui non potest justè & absque Tyrannide. Siquidem ab ipso Deo constitutus non est, •ec electus cuilibet civili societati immediatè Rex aut Princeps. Arist. polit. 3. c. 10. saith, It is better that Kings got by election then by birth; because Kingdoms by succession are verè regia, truly Kingly: these by birth are more Tyrannical, masterly, and proper to Barbarous Nations. And Covarruvias, tom. 2. pract. quest. de jurisd. Castellan. Reip. c. 1. n. 4. faith, Hereditary Kings are also made hereditary by the tacit consent of the people, and so by law and consuetude.
Covaruv. a▪ great Lawyer, saith, 1. that all Civill power is penes 1remp. in the hands of the Common-wealth. 1. Because Nature hath given to man to be a sociall creature, and impossible he can preserve himselfe in a societie, except he being in communitie, transforme his power to an head. 2. He saith; Hujus vero civilis societatis & resp. rector ab alio quam ab ipsamet repub. constitui non potest justè & absque Tyrannide. Siquidem ab ipso Deo constitutus non est, •ec electus cuilibet civili societati immediatè Rex aut Princeps. Arist. polit. 3. c. 10. saith, It is better that Kings got by election then by birth; because Kingdomes by succession are verè regia, truly Kingly: these by birth are more Tyrannicall, masterly, and proper to Barbarous Nations. And Covarruvias, tom. 2. pract. quest. de jurisd. Castellan. Reip. c. 1. n. 4. faith, Hereditary Kings are also made hereditary by the tacit consent of the people, and so by law and consuetude.
- 1(a) Covarruvias, tom. 2. pract. quest.▪ c. 1. n. 2. 3. 4.