A92147:736
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.
Lex, Rex. › Question 26: QUEST. XXVI. Whether the King be above the Law or no?
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.
2. It is the Law, Imperator L. 4. dignae vox. C. de lege & tit. Quod quisque juris in alium statuit, eodem & ipse utatur. Julius Caesar commanded the youth who had deflowered the Emperors daughter, to be scourged, above that which the Law allowed. The youth said to the Emperor, Dixisti legem Caesar; You appointed1 the Law, Caesar. The Emperor was so offended with himself, that he had failed against the Law, that for the whole day he refused to taste meat.
2. It is the Law, Jmperator L. 4. dignae vox. C. de lege & tit. Quod quisque juris in alium statuit, eodem & ipse utatur. Iulius Caesar commanded the youth who had defloured the Emperours daughter, to be scourged, above that which the Law allowed. The youth said to the Emperour, Dixisti legem Caesar; You appointed1 the Law, Caesar. The Emperor was so offended with himself, that he had failed against the Law, that for the whole day he refused to taste meat.
- 1Plutarch in Apotheg. l. 4.
Assert. 5. The King cannot but he subject to the coactive power of Fundamental Laws: Because this is a Fundamental Law, that the1 free Estates lay upon the King, that all the power that they give to the King as King, is for the good and safety of the people; and so what he doth to the hurt of his subjects, he doth it not as King.
Assert. 5. The King cannot but he subject to the coactive power of Fundamentall Laws: Because this is a Fundamentall Law, that the1 free Estates lay upon the King, that all the power that they give to the King as King, is for the good and safety of the people; and so what he doth to the hurt of his subjects, he doth it not as King.