A treatise of civil policy

Name: A treatise of civil policy
Author: Samuel Rutherford

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.

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661London, : 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

[34], 438 p. · 210k words · Wing R2396 · ESTC R207911

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Lex, Rex. › Question 13: QUEST. XIII. Whether or no Royal dignity have its spring from nature, and how that is…Lex, Rex. › Question 13: QUEST. XIII. Whether or no Royall dignitie have its spring from nature, and how that is…

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QUEST. XIII. Whether or no Royal dignity have its spring from nature, and how that is true (every man is born free) and how servitude is contrary to nature?

QUEST. XIII. Whether or no Royall dignitie have its spring from nature, and how that is true (every man is born free) and how servitude is contrary to nature?

:321p. 89

I Conceive it to be evident that Royal dignity is not immediately, and without the intervention of the peoples consent given by God to any one person. 2. That conquest and violence, is no just title to a Crown. Now the question is, If Royalty flow from nature, if Royalty be not a thing merely natural, neither can subjection to Royal power be merely natural; but the former is rather civill, then natural: and the question of the same nature is, Whether subjection or servitude be natural?

I Conceive it to be evident that Royall dignity is not immediately, and without the intervention of the peoples consent given by God to any one person. 2. That conquest and violence, is no just title to a Crown. Now the question is, If Royalty flow from nature, if Royalty be not a thing meerly naturall, neither can subjection to Royall power be meerly naturall; but the former is rather civill, then naturall: and the question of the same nature is, Whether subjection or servitude be naturall?

:322p. 89–90

I conceive, that there be divers subjections to these that are above¹

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661

Place

London

Year

1656

Imprint

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]

Size

[34], 438 p.

Words

210,399

Catalogue

Wing R2396 · ESTC R207911

Text

EEBO-TCP A92147

Passages

1,374

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

QUEST. XIII. Whether or no Royal dignity have its spring from nature, and how that is true (every man is born free) and how servitude is contrary to nature?

QUEST. XIII. Whether or no Royall dignitie have its spring from nature, and how that is true (every man is born free) and how servitude is contrary to nature?

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