A92147:910
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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But what ground (saith the Royalist) is there to take Arms against a King? Jealousies and suspicions are not enough.
But what ground (saith the Royalist) is there to take Arms against a King? Ielousies and suspitions are not enough.
Ans. The King sent first an Army to Scotland, and blocked us up by sea, before we took Arms. 2. Papists were armed in England, they have professed themselves in their Religion of Trent to be so much the holier, that they root out Protestants. 3. The King1 declared we had broken loyalty to him, since the last Parliament. 4. He declared both Kingdoms Rebels. 5. Attempted in his Emissaries to destroy the Parliament. 6. And to bring in a foreign enemy. And the Law saith, An imminent danger, which is a sufficient warrant to take up Arms, is not strokes, but either the terror of Armour, or threatening. Glossator. in d. l. 1. C. Vinde vi. ait non esse verbera expectanda, sed vel terrorem armorum sufficere, vel minas, & hoc esse immin•ns periculum. L. Sed & si quemcunque in princ. ff. ad leg. Aquil. l. 3. quod qui armati ff. de vi & vi armata is qui aggressorem. C. adlegem C. adlegem Corneli.
Ans. The King sent first an Armie to Scotland, and blocked us up by sea, before we took Armes. 2. Papists were armed in England, they have professed themselves in their Religion of Trent to be so much the holyer, that they root out Prottstants. 3. The King1 declared we had broken loyalty to him, since the last Parliament. 4. He d•clared both Kingdoms Rebels. 5. Attempted in his Emissaries to destroy the Parliament. 6. And to bring in a forraigne enemie. And the Law saith, An imminent danger, which is a sufficient warrant to take up Armes, is not strokes, but either the terrour of Armour, or threatning. Glossator. in d. l. 1. C. Vinde vi. ait non esse verbera expectanda, sed vel terrorem armorum sufficere, vel minas, & hoc esse imminns periculum. L. Sed & si quemcunque in princ. ff. ad leg. Aquil. l. 3. quod qui armati ff. de vi & vi armata is qui aggressorem. C. adlegem C. adlegem Corneli.