A92147:567
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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4. That which the spirit of God condemneth as a point of Tyranny1 in Nebuchadnezzar, that is no lawful Prerogative Royal: but the spirit of God condemneth this as Tyranny in Nebuchadnezzar, That he slew whom he would, he kept alive whom he would, he set up whom he would, he put down, this is too God-like, Deut. 32. 39. So Polanus, Rollocus, on the place, say, he did these things, Vers. 19. Ex abusu legitime potestatis; for Nebuchadnezzars will in matters of death and life, was his Law, and he did what pleased ⟨p. 198⟩himself above all Law beside, and contrary to it: and our flatterers of Kings draw the Kings Prerogative out of Ulpian's words, who saith, That is a Law which seemeth good to the Prince; but Ulpian was far from making the Princes will a rule of good and ill, for he saith the contrary, That the Law ruleth the just Prince.
4. That which the spirit of God condemneth as a point of Tyranny1 in Nebuchadnezzar, that is no lawfull Prerogative Royall: but the spirit of God condemneth this as Tyranny in Nebuchadnezzar, That he slew whom he would, he kept alive whom he would, he set up whom he would, he put down, this is too God-like, Deut. 32. 39. So Polanus, Rollocus, on the place, say, he did these things, Vers. 19. Ex abusu legitime potestatis; for Nebuchadnezzars will in matters of death and life, was his Law, and he did what pleased ⟨p. 198⟩himself above all Law beside, and contrary to it: and our flatterers of Kings draw the Kings Pretogative out of Ʋlpians words, who saith, That is a Law which seemeth good to the Prince; but Ʋlpian was far from making the Princes will a rule of good and ill, for he saith the contrary, That the Law ruleth the just Prince.
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