A treatise of civil policy

Name: A treatise of civil policy
Author: Samuel Rutherford

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.

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661London, : 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

[34], 438 p. · 210k words · Wing R2396 · ESTC R207911

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Lex, Rex. › Question 34: QUEST. XXXIIII. Whether Royalists by cogent reasons do prove the unlawfulness of defen…Lex, Rex. › Question 34: QUEST. XXXIIII. Whether Royalists by cogent reasons do prove the unlawfulnesse of defen…

Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.

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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.

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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.

Answ. The bloody Irish Rebels then being inferiour to the Parliament, cannot resist the Parliament. 2. Inferiour 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 Cavalliers, and Irish cut-throats, except you say, inferiour Judges are not obliged to execute judgement, but at the Kings commandment.

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Object. As the Irish Rebels are armed with the Kings power, they are superior to the Parliament.

Object. As the Irish Rebels are armed with the Kings power, they are superiour to the Parliament.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661

Place

London

Year

1656

Imprint

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]

Size

[34], 438 p.

Words

210,399

Catalogue

Wing R2396 · ESTC R207911

Text

EEBO-TCP A92147

Passages

1,374

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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