A92147:635
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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Ans. 1. The Parliament is coordinate ordinarily with the King,1 in the power of making Laws: but the coordination on the Kings part, is by derivation; on the Parliaments part, originaliter & fontaliter, as in the fountain. 2. In ordinary there is coordination: but if the King turn Tyrant, the Estates are to use their fountain power. And that of the Law, Par in parem, &c. is no better from his Pen, that stealeth all he hath, then from Barclaius, Grotius, Arnisaeus, Blackwood, &c. It is cold and sour. We hold the Parliament that made the King at Hebron, to be above their own creature the King. Barclaius saith more accurately, l. 5, cont. Monarch. p. 129. It is absurd, that the People should both be subject to the King, and command the King also.
Ans. 1. The Parliament is coordinate ordinarily with the King,1 in the power of making Lawes: but the coordination on the Kings part, is by derivation; on the Parliaments part, originaliter & fontaliter, as in the fountaine. 2. In ordinarie there is coordination: but if the King turne Tyrant, the Estates are to use their fountainepower. And that of the Law, Par in parem, &c. is no better from his Pen, that stealeth all he hath, then from Barclaius, Grotius, Arnisaeus, Blackwood, &c. It is cold and sowre. We hold the Parliament that made the King at Hebron, to be above their own creature the King. Barclaius saith more acurately, l. 5, cont. Monarch. p. 129. It is absurd, that the People should both be subject to the King, and command the King also.
- 1Subordination of the King to the Parliament, and coordination, both consistent.Subordination of the King to the Parliament, and coordinatiō, both consistent.
Ans. It is not absurd, that a Father natural, as a private man, should be subject to his Son; even that Jesse, and his elder brother, the Lord of all the rest, be subject to David their King. Royalists say, Our late Queen, being supreme Magistrate, might by Law have put to death her own husband, for adultery or murder.