A92147:941
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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The special ground of Royalists from Rom. 13. against the lawfulness1 of defensive Wars, is to make Paul, Rom. 13. speak only of Kings. Hugo Grotius de jure belli & pac. l. 1. c. 4. num. 6. Barclay cont. Monarch. l. 3. c. 9. saith, Though Ambrose expound the place Rom. 13. de solis Regibus, of Kings only, (this is false of Kings only, he doth not, but of Kings principally) Y•a it followeth not that all Magistrates, by this place, are freed from all laws, because (saith he) there is no Judge above a King on earth, and therefore he cannot be punished; but there is a Judge above all inferior Judges, and therefore they must be subject to Laws. So D. Ferne followeth him, sect. 2. pag. 10. and our poor Prelate must be an accident to them, Sacr. San. Maj. cap. 2. pag. 29. for his learning cannot subsist per se.
THe speciall ground of Royalists from Rom. 13. against the lawfulnesse1 of defensive Wars, is to make Paul, Rom. 13. speake onely of Kings. Hugo Grotius de jure belli & pac. l. 1. c. 4. num. 6. Barclay cont. Monarch. l. 3. c. 9. saith, Though Ambrose expound the place Rom. 13. de solis Regibus, of Kings onely, (this is false of Kings onely, he doth not, but of Kings principally) Y•a it followeth not that all Magistrates, by this place, are freed from all lawes, because (saith he) there is no Iudge above a King on earth, and therefore he cannot be punished; but there is a Iudge above all inferiour Iudges, and therefore they must be subject to Lawes. So D. Ferno followeth him, sect. 2. pag. 10. and our poore Prelate must be an accident to them, Sacr. San. Maj. cap. 2. pag. 29. for his learning cannot subsist per se.