A92147:700
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.
Ans. What the King doth as King, he doth it for the happiness of his people, the King is a relative, yea even his own happiness that he seeketh, he is to refer to the good of Gods people. He saith farther, The safety of the people includeth the safety of the King, because 1the word populus is so taken, which he proveth by a raw sickly rabble of words, stolen out of Passerats Dictioner. His father the School-master may whip him for frivolous Etymologies.
Ans. What the King doth as King, he doth it for the happinesse of his people, the King is a relative, yea even his owne happinesse that he seeketh, he is to referre to the good of Gods people. He saith farther, The safety of the people includeth the safety of the King, because 1the word populus is so taken, which he proveth by a raw sickly rabble of words, stollen out of Passerats Dictioner. His father the Schoole-master may whip him for frivolous Etymologies.
- 1Symmons hath the same very thing in his Loyal Subjec. unbelief. p. 39. Page 175.Symmons hath the same very thing in his Loyall Subjec. unbelief. p. 39. Page 175.
This supreme Law (saith the Prelate) is not above the Law of Prerogative Royal, the highest Law, nor is Rex above Lex. The Democracy of Rome had a supremacy above Laws, to make and unmake Laws: and will they force this power on a Monarch, to the destruction of Sovereignty?
This supreame Law (saith the Prelate) is not above the Law of Prerogative Royall, the highest Law, nor is Rex above Lex. The Democracie of Rome had a supremacie above Lawes, to make and unmake Lawes: and will they force this power on a Monarch, to the destruction of Soveraigntie?