A92147:949
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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QUEST. XXXIIII. Whether Royalists by cogent reasons do prove the unlawfulness of defensive wars?
QUEST. XXXIIII. Whether Royalists by cogent reasons do prove the unlawfulnesse of defensive warres?
What reasons have already been discussed, I touch not. 1Obj. 1. Arnisaeus de authorit princip. c. 2. num. 2. If we are to obey our parents, not if they be good, but simply whether they be good or ill (so Just▪ saith of the King, Quamvis legum contemptor, quamvis impius, tamen pater §. si vero in ff. vos. 12.) then must we submit to wicked Kings.
VVHat reasons have already been discussed, I touch not. 1Obj. 1. Arnisaeus de authorit princip. c. 2. num. 2. If we are to obey our parents, not if they be good, but simply whether they be good or ill (so Iust▪ saith of the King, Quamvis legum contemptor, quamvis impius, tamen pater §. si vero in ff. vos. 12.) then must we submit to wicked Kings.
- 1Reasons against the lawfulness of resistance made to unjust violence, answered.Reasons against the lawfulnesse of resistance made to unjust violence, answered.