A92147:409
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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Obj. The Pupil hath not power to appoint his own Tutor, nor doth he give power to him, so neither doth the people give it to the King. Ans. The Pupil hath not indeed a formal power to make a Tutor, but he hath virtually a legal power in his father, who appointeth a Tutor for his son, and the people have virtually all Royal power in them, as in a sort of immortal and eternal fountain, and may create to themselves many Kings.
Obj. The Pupill hath not power to appoint his owne Tutor, nor doth he give power to him, so neither doth the people give it to the King. Ans. The Pupill hath not indeed a formall power to make a Tutor, but he hath vertually a legall power in his father, who appointeth a Tutor for his sonne, and the people have vertually all Royall power in them, as in a sort of immortall and eternall fountain, and may create to themselves many Kings.
Asser. 2. The Kings power is not properly and univocally a Marital1 and husbandly power, but only Analogically, 1. The Wife by nature is the weaker Vessel, and inferior to the man, but the Kingdom, as shall be demonstrated is superior to the King. 2. The Wife is given as an help to the man, but by the contrary the man here is given as an help and father to the Common-wealth, which is presumed to be the wife. 3. Marital and husbandly power is natural, though it be not natural, but from free election that Peter is Anae's Husband, and should have been, though man had never sinned: but Royal Power is a politic constitution, and the world might have subsisted, though Aristocracy or Democracy had been the only and perpetual governments. So let the Prelate glory in his borrowed Logic, he had it from Barclay. It is not in the power of the Wife to repudiat her Husband, though never so wicked, she is tied to him for ever, and may not give to him a bill of Divorcement, as by Law the Husband might give to her; if therefore the people swear loyalty to him, they must keep, though to their hurt. Ps. 15. Aas. There's ⟨p. 126⟩