A92147:345
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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when ill is coming on the body, it is presumed that the power of defence is recurred to the left hand, and to the rest of the body to defend it self, in this case as if the body had no right hand, and had never communicated any power to the right hand at all. So if an incorporation accused of Treason, and in danger of the sentence of death▪ shall appoint a Lawyer to Advocate their cause, and to give in their just defences to the Judge; if their Advocate be stricken with dumbness, because they have loosed their legal and representative tongue, none can say that ⟨p. 100⟩this incorporation hath loosed the tongues that Nature hath given them, so as by Natures law they may not plead in their own just & lawful defence, as if they had never appointed the foresaid lawyer to plead for them. The King, as a man, is not more obliged to the public and regal defence of the true Religion, then any other man of the land; but he is made by God and the people King, for the Church and people of God's sake, that he may defend true Religion, for the behalf and salvation of all. If therefore he defend not Religion for the salvation of the souls of all in his public and royal way, it is presumed as undeniable, that the people of God, who by the law of nature are to care for their own soul, are to defend in their way, true Religion, which so nearly concerneth them and their eternal happiness.
when ill is comming on the body, it is presumed that the power of defence is recurred to the left hand, and to the rest of the body to defend it selfe, in this case as if the body had no right hand, and had never communicated any power to the right hand at all. So if an incorporation accused of Treason, and in danger of the sentence of death▪ shall appoint a Lawyer to Advocate their cause, and to give in their just defences to the Iudge; if their Advocate be stricken with dumbnesse, because they have losed their legall and representative tongue, none can say that ⟨p. 100⟩this incorporation hath loosed the tongues that Nature hath given them, so as by Natures law they may not plead in their own just & lawfull defence, as if they had never appointed the foresaid lawyer to plead for them. The King, as a man, is not more obliged to the publick and regall defence of the true Religion, then any other man of the land; but he is made by God and the people King, for the Church and people of God's sake, that he may defend true Religion, for the behalfe and salvation of all. If therefore he defend not Religion for the salvation of the soules of all in his publick and royall way, it is presumed as undeniable, that the people of God, who by the law of nature are to care for their own soule, are to defend in their way, true Religion, which so nearly concerneth them and their eternall happinesse.