A92147:646
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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If the Office of a Tyrant (to speak so) be contrary to a Kings Offices, it is not from God, and so neither is the power from God. 9. Yea Laws (which are no less from God, then the Kings are) when they begin to be hurtful, Cessant materialiter, they leave off to be Laws; because they oblige Non secundum vim verborum, sed in vim sensus, not according to the force of words, but according to sense, •. Non figura literarum F. de actione & obligatione, l. ita stipulatus. But who (saith the Royalists) shall be judge betwixt the King and the people, when the people allege that the King is a Tyrant.
If the Office of a Tyrant (to speake so) be contrary to a Kings Offices, it is not from God, and so neither is the power from God. 9. Yea Lawes (which are no lesse from God, then the Kings are) when they begin to be hurtfull, Cessant materialiter, they leave off to be Lawes; because they oblige Non secundum vim verborum, sed in vim sensus, not according to the force of words, but according to sense, •. Non figura literarum F. de actione & obligatione, l. ita stipulatus. But who (saith the Royalists) shall be judge betwixt the King and the people, when the people alledge that the King is a Tyrant.
Ans. There is a Court of necessity, no less then a Court of1 Justice; and 2. The fundamental Laws must then speak, and it is with the people in this extremity, as if they had no Ruler.
Ans. There is a Court of necessity, no lesse then a Court of1 Justice; and 2. The fundamentall Lawes must then speake, and it is with the people in this extremity, as if they had no Ruler.
- 1A Court of necessity, and a Court of Justice.