A92147:837
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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3. There is not a stricter Obligation Moral betwixt King and1 people, then betwixt Parents and Children, Master and servant, Patron and Clients, Husband and Wife, the Lord and the Vassal; between the Pilot of a Ship and the Passengers, the Physician and the sick, the Doctor and the scholars: but the Law granteth l. Minime 35. De Relig. & sumpt. funner. If these betray their trust committed to them, they may be resisted; if the father turn distracted, and arise to kill his sons, his sons may violently apprehend him, and ⟨p. 262⟩bind his hands, and spoil him of his Weapons: for in that he is not a father, Vasquez, Lib. 1. Illustr. question. c. 8. n. 18. Si dominus subditum enormiter & atrociter oneraret, princeps superior vassallum posset ex t••o e•imere a sua jurisdictione, & etiam tacente subdito & nihil petente. Quid papa in suis decis. Parliam. grat. decis. 62. si quis Baro. abutentes dominio privari possunt. The servant may resist the Master, if he attempt unjustly to kill him; so may the Wife do to the Husband: if the Pilot should wilfully run the ship on a Rock to destroy himself and his Passengers, they might violently thrust him from the Helm. Every Tyrant is a furious man, and is morally distracted, as Althusius saith, Politi. c. 28. n. 30. & seq.
3. There is not a stricter Obligation Morall betwixt King and1 people, then betwixt Parents and Children, Master and servant, Patron and Clients, Husband and Wife, the Lord and the Vassell; between the Pilot of a Ship and the Passengers, the Physitian and the sick, the Doctor and the schollars: but the Law granteth l. Minime 35. De Relig. & sumpt. funer. If these betray their trust committed to them, they may be resisted; if the father turne distracted, and arise to kill his sonnes, his sonnes may violently apprehend him, and ⟨p. 262⟩bind his hands, and spoile him of his Weapons: for in that he is not a father, Vasquez, Lib. 1. Illustr. question. c. 8. n. 18. Si dominus subditum enormiter & atrociter oneraret, princeps superior vassallum posset ex to eimere a sua jurisdictione, & etiam tacente subdito & nihil petente. Quid papa in suis decis. Parliam. grat. decis. 62. si quis Baro. abutentes dominio privari possunt. The servant may resist the Master, if he attempt unjustly to kill him; so may the Wife doe to the Husband: if the Pilot should wilfully run the ship on a Rock to destroy himselfe and his Passengers, they might violently thrust him from the Helme. Every Tyrant is a furious man, and is morally distracted, as Althusius saith, Politi. c. 28. n. 30. & seq.