A92147:622
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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3. His ground is, That there is such majesty in Kings, that their 1will must be done either in us, or on us: A great untruth. Achabs will must neither be done of Elijah, for he commandeth things unjust; nor yet on Elijah, for Elijah fled, and lawfully we may sly Tyrants: and so Achabs will in killing Elijah was not done on him,
3. His ground is, That there is such majesty in Kings, that their 1will must be done either in us, or on us: A great untruth. Achabs will must neither be done of Elias, for he commandeth things unjust; nor yet on Elias, for Elias fled, and lawfully we may slie Tyrants: and so Achabs will in killing Elias was not done on him,
- 1No necessity that an unjust will of a King be either done by us, or on us.No necessitie that an unjust will of a King be either done by us, or on us.
Assert. 2. Nor can it be made good, that the King only hath1 power of making Laws; because his power were then absolute, to inflict penalties on Subjects, without any consent of theirs; and that were a dominion of Masters, who command what they please, and under what pain they please. And the people consenting to be ruled by such a man, they tacitly consent to penalty of laws, because natural reason saith, An ill-doer should be punished. Florianus in l. inde. Vasquez, l. 2. c. 55. n. 3. Therefore they must have some power in making these laws.
Assert. 2. Nor can it be made good, that the King only hath1 power of making Lawes; because his power were then absolute, to inflict penalties on Subjects, without any consent of theirs; and that were a dominion of Masters, who command what they please, and under what paine they please. And the people consenting to be ruled by such a man, they tacitely consent to penaltie of laws, because naturall reason saith, An ill-doer should be punished. Florianus in l. inde. Vasquez, l. 2. c. 55. n. 3. Therefore they must have some power in making these lawes.