A92147:373
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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de his qui fil. occid. teach that the father is not obliged to reveal the conspiracy of his son against his Prince, nor is he more to accuse his son, then to accuse himself; because the father loveth the son better then himself. D. Listi quidem. Sect. Fin. quod. met. caus. & D. L. fin. c. de cura furiosi, and certainly a father had rather dye in his own person as choose to dye in his sons, in whom he affecteth a sort of immortality, In specie, quando non potest in individuo: but a King doth not love his subjects with a natural or fatherly love thus; and if the affections differ, the power which secondeth the affection, for the conservation either of being, or well being, must also differ proportionally.
de his qui fil. occid. teach that the father is not obliged to reveale the conspiracy of his son against his Prince, nor is he more to accuse his son, then to accuse himselfe; because the father loveth the sonne better then himselfe. D. Listi quidem. Sect. Fin. quod. met. caus. & D. L. fin. c. de cura furiosi, and certainly a father had rather dye in his own person as choose to dye in his sonnes, in whom he affecteth a sort of immortality, In specie, quando non potest in individuo: but a King doth not love his subjects with a naturall or fatherly love thus; and if the affections differ, the power which secondeth the affection, for the conservation either of being, or well being, must also differ proportionally.
The P. Prelate objecteth against us thus, stealing word by word 1from Arnisaeus: When a King is elected Sovereign to a multitude, he is surrogated in the place of a common father, Exod. 20. 5. Honour thy father; then as a natural father receiveth not Paternal right, power, or authority from his sons, but hath this from God, and the ordinance of nature, nor can the King have his right from the community. 2. The maxim of the Law is, Surrogatus gaudet privilegiis ejus cui surrogatur, & qui succedit •n locum, succedit in jus. The ⟨p. 114⟩