A92147:823
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. The present question is not of Subjects only, but of the Estates, and Parliamentary Lords of a Kingdom; I utterly deny these as they are Judges, to be subjects to the King; for the question is, Whether is the King, or the representative Kingdom greatest, and which of them be subject one to another: I affirm, Amongst Judges as Judges, not one is the Commander or Superior, and the other, the commanded or subject. Indeed, one higher Judge may correct and punish a Judge, not as a Judge, but as an erring man.
2. The present question is not of Subjects onely, but of the Estates, and Parliamentary Lords of a Kingdom; I utterly deny these as they are Iudges, to be subjects to the King; for the question is, Whether is the King, or the representative Kingdom greatest, and which of them be subject one to another: I affirm, Amongst Iudges as Iudges, not one is the Commander or Superiour, and the other, the commanded or subject. Indeed, one higher Iudge may correct and punish a Iudge, not as a Iudge, but as an erring man.
3. The question is not so much concerning the authoritative Act ⟨p. 258⟩of War, as concerning the power of natural Defence, upon supposition, That the King be not now turned an habitual Tyrant, but that upon some acts of mis-information, he come in arms against his Subjects.
3. The question is not so much concerning the authoritative Act ⟨p. 258⟩of War, as concerning the power of naturall Defence, upon supposition, That the King be not now turned an habituall Tyrant, but that upon some acts of mis-information, he come in arms against his Subjects.