A92147:706
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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2. That the King command this as King, it is not a particular positive Law; but he doth it as a man, and a member of the Kingdom; The law of Nature, (which knoweth no dream of such a Prerogative) forceth him to it, as every member is, by Natures indictment, to care for the whole.
2. That the King command this as King, it is not a particular positive Law; but he doth it as a man, and a member of the Kingdom; The law of Nature, (which knoweth no dreame of such a Prerogative) forceth him to it, as every member is, by Natures indictment, to care for the whole.
3. It is poor hungry skill in this New Statist, (for so he nameth all Scotland) to say, that any Laws are made for private interests, 1and the good of some individuals. Laws are not Laws, if they be not made for the safety of the people.
3. It is poore hungry skill in this New Statist, (for so he nameth all Scotland) to say, that any Lawes are made for private interests, 1and the good of some individuals. Lawes are not Lawes, if they be not made for the safetie of the people.
- 1The Kings supposed Prerogative, nothing, in comparison of the lives and blood of so many thousands as are killed in England and Ireland.
4. It is false, that the King in a public danger is to care for himself as a man, with the ruin and loss of any: Yea, in a public calamity, a good King, as David, is to desire he may die, that the Public may be saved,