A92147:403
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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QUEST. XVII. Whether or not the Prince have properly a fiduciary, and ministerial power of a Tutor, Husband, Patron, Minister, head, father of a family, not of a Lord or dominator?
QUEST. XVII. Whether or not the Prince have properly a fiduciarie, and ministeriall power of a Tutor, Husband, Patron, Minister, head, father of a family, not of a Lord or dominator?
That the power of the King is fiduciary, that is given to him1 immediately by God in trust, Royalists deny not; but we hold that the trust is put upon the King by the people. 2. We deny that the people give themselves to the King as a gift, for what is freely given cannot be taken again; but they gave themselves to the King as a pawn; and if the pawn be abused, or not used in that manner as it was conditionated to be used, the party in whose hand the pawn is entrusted, faileth in his trust.
THat the power of the King is fiduciarie, that is given to him1 immediatly by God in trust, Royallists deny not; but we hold that the t•ust is put upon the King by the people. 2. We deny that the people give themselves to the King as a gift, for what is freely given cannot be taken againe; but they gave themselves to the King as a pawne; and if the pawne be abused, or not used in that manner as it was conditionated to be used, the party in whose hand the pawne is intrusted, faileth in his trust.
- 1The Kings power fiduciary.The Kings power fiduciarie.