A92147:819
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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QUEST. XXVIII. Whether or no, Wars raised by the Subjects and Estates, for their own just defence against the Kings bloody Emissaries, be lawful?
QUEST. XXVIII. Whether or no, Wars raised by the Subjects and Estates, for their own just defence against the Kings bloody Emissaries, be lawfull?
Arnisaeus perverteth the question; he saith, The question is,1 Whether or no, the Subjects may according to their power, judge the King, and dethrone him; that is, Whether or no, is it lawful for the Subjects in any case, to take arms against their lawful Prince, if he degenerate, and shall wickedly use his lawful power?
ARnisaeus perverteth the question; he saith, The question is,1 Whether or no, the Subjects may according to their power, judge the King, and dethrone him; that is, Whether or no, is it lawfull for the Subjects in any case, to take arms against their lawfull Prince, if he degenerate, and shall wickedly use his lawfull power?
- 1Arnisaeus de authori. Princ. c. 1. n. 2. The state of the question concerning resistance.