A92147:483
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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He citeth that of Augustine: If the Consul command one thing,1 and the Emperor another thing, you contemn not the power, but you choose to obey the highest: Peter saith, He will have us one way to be subject to the King, as to the supreme, sine ulla exception, without any exception, but to these who are sent by the King, as having their power from the King.
He citeth that of Augustine: If the Consul command one thing,1 and the Emperour another thing, you contemn not the power, but you choose to obey the highest: Peter saith, He will have us one way to be subject to the King, as to the supreme, sine ulla exceptione, without any exception, but to these who are sent by the King, as having their power from the King.
- 1Grot. 16.
Answ. When the Consul commandeth a thing lawful, and the King that same thing lawful, or a thing not unlawful, we are to obey the King, rather then the Consul: so I expone Augustine. 2. We are not to obey the King and the Consul the same way, that1 is with the same degree of reverence and submission; for we owe more submission of spirit to the King, then to the Consul; but magis & minus non variant speciem, more or less varieth not the natures of things: but if the meaning be that we are not to obey the inferior Judge commanding things lawful, if the King command the contrary, this is utterly denied: But saith Grotius, The inferior Judge is but the Deputy of the King, and hath all his power from him; ⟨p. 162⟩therefore we are to obey him for the King. Answ. The inferior Judge may be called the Deputy of the King, (where it is the Kings place to make Judges) because he hath his external call from the King, and is Judge, in foro Soli, in the name and authority of the