A92147:978
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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Answ. I deny the consequence. Those who resist the Kings ⟨p. 362⟩personal will, and will not suffer him to ruin his Crown and posterity in following Papists, against his Oath at the Coronation, do honour him and his Throne and Race as a King, though for the time they displease him. 2. Uzziah was not dishonoured in that he was resisted. 3. Nor do we honour the King, when we flee from him and his Law. Yet that resistance is lawful, according to the way of Royalists; and in truth also.
Answ. I deny the consequence. Those who resist the Kings ⟨p. 362⟩personall will, and will not suffer him to ruine his Crowne and posterity in following Papists, against his Oath at the Coronation, do honour him and his Throne and Race as a King, though for the time they displease him. 2. Vzziah was not dishonoured in that he was resisted. 3. Nor doe we honour the King, when we flee from him and his Law. Yet that resistance is lawfull, according to the way of Royalists; and in truth also.
Object. 12. Supreme power is not to be resisted by subordinate powers, because they are inferior to the supreme.
Object. 12. Supreme power is not to be resisted by subordinate powers, because they are inferiour to the supreme.
Answ. The bloody Irish Rebels then being inferior to the Parliament, cannot resist the Parliament. 2. Inferior Judges as Judges are immediately subordinate to God as the King, and must be guilty of blood before God, if they use nor the sword against bloody Cavaliers, and Irish cut-throats, except you say, inferior Judges are not obliged to execute judgement, but at the Kings commandment.