A92147:751
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.
To these, and the like, hear what the excommunicated Prelate1 hath to say; 1. They say (he meaneth the Jesuits) Every society of men is a perfect Republic, and so must have within it self a power to preserve it self from ruin, and by that to punish a Tyrant. He answereth, A society without a Head, is a disorderly rout, not a Politic body; and so cannot have this power.
To these, and the like, heare what the excommunicated Prelate1 hath to say; 1. They say (he meaneth the Jesuites) Every societie of men is a perfect Republick, and so must have within it selfe a power to preserve it selfe from ruine, and by that to punish a Tyrant. He answereth, A societie without a Head, is a disorderly rout, not a Politique body; and so cannot have this power.
- 1Sac. sanc. Mai. c. 15. p. 146, 147.
Ans. 1. The Pope giveth to every Society, Politic power to make away a Tyrant, or heretical King, and to un-king him, by his brethren the Jesuits way. And observe, how Papists (of which number I could easily prove the P. Prelate to be, by the Popish doctrine that he delivered, while the iniquity of time, and dominion of Prelates in Scotland, advanced him, against all worth of true learning and holiness, to be a Preacher in Edinburgh) and Jesuits agree, as the builders of Babylon. It is the purpose of God to destroy Babylon.
Ans. 1. The Pope giveth to every Societie, Politick power to make away a Tyrant, or hereticall King, and to un-king him, by his brethren the Jesuites way. And observe, how Papists (of which number I could easily prove the P. Prelate to be, by the Popish doctrine that he delivered, while the iniquitie of time, and dominion of Prelates in Scotland, advanced him, against all worth of true learning and holinesse, to be a Preacher in Edinborough) and Iesuites agree, as the builders of Babylon. It is the purpose of God to destroy Babylon.