A92147:593
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. He may not marry whom he pleaseth, for he might give his1 body to a Leper woman, and so hurt the Kingdom.
- 1The King because of the publicness of his office inferior to subjects and other Judges, in many privileges.The King because of the publikenesse of his office inferiour to subjects and other Iudges, in many priviledges.
2. He may not do, as Solomon and Ahab, marry the daughter of a strange god, to make her the mother of the heir of the Crown. He must in this follow his great Senate. 2. He may not expose his person to hazard of Wars.
2. He may not do, as Solomon and Achab, marry the daughter of a strange god, to make her the mother of the heir of the Crown. He must in this follow his great Senate. 2. He may not expose his person to hazard of Warres.
3. He may not go over Sea, and leave his Watch-Tower, without consent.