A92147:831
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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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.
3. I would think it not fit, easily to resist the Kings unjust Exactors1 of custom or tribute; 1. Because Christ payed tribute to Tiberius Caesar, an unjust usurper, though he was free from that, by Gods Law, least he should offend. 2. Because we have a greater dominion over Goods, then over our Lives and Bodies; and it is better to yield in a matter of Goods, then to come to Arms; for of sinless evils, we may choose the least.
3. I would think it not fit, easily to resist the Kings unjust Exactors1 of custome or tribute; 1. Because Christ payed tribute to Tiberius Caesar, an unjust usurper, though he was free from that, by Gods Law, least he should offend. 2. Because we have a greater dominion over Goods, then over our Lives and Bodies; and it is better to yield in a matter of Goods, then to come to Arms; for of sinlesse evils, we may choose the least.
- 1The Exactors of unjust tribute, not easily to be resisted.
4. A Tyrant without a Title may be resisted by any private man. Quia licet vim vi repellere; Because we may repel violence by violence, yea, he may be killed. Ʋ • l. & vim. F. de justit. & jure, ubi plene per omnes. Vasquez, l. 1. c. S. n. 33. Barcla. contra. Monaroho. l. 4. c. 10. pag. 268.
4. A Tyrant without a Title may be resisted by any private man. Quia licet vim vi repellere; Because we may repell violence by violence, yea, he may be killed. Ʋ • l. & vim. F. de iustit. & jure, ubi plene per omnes. Vasquez, l. 1. c. S. n. 33. Barcla. contra. Monaroho. l. 4. c. 10. pag. 268.