A92147:608
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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16. He hath not power of his children, nor hath he that power that other fathers have, to marry his eldest son, as he pleaseth.
17. He may not befriend a Traitor.
17. He may not befriend a Traytor.
18. It is high Treason for any woman to give her body to the King, except she be his married wife.
19. He ought not to build sumptuous Houses, without advice of his Council.
19. He ought not to build sumptuous Houses, without advice of his Councell.
20. He may not dwell constantly where he pleaseth.