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Treatise of Civil Policy

Published: 1657
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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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EpigraphL. An. Senecae Octavia. Nero, Seneca.
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Table of contentsThe Table of the Contents of the Book.
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TreatiseLex, Rex.
Question 1QUEST. I. In what ſenſe Government is from God?
Question 2QUEST. II. Whether or not, Government be warranted by the Law of nature.

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Question 4QUEST. IIII. Whether the king be only and imediatly from God, & not from the people.
Question 5QUEST. V. Whether or no P. P. the Author of Sac. San. Regum Majeſtas, called the ſacred and Royall…
Question 6QUEST. VI. Whether the King be ſo from God onely both in regard of his Soveraignty, and of the deſignation…
Question 7QUEST. VII. Whether or no the P. Prelate the aforeſaid Auth…r doth by force of reaſon evince, that neither…
Question 8QUEST. VIII. Whether the Prelate proveth by force of reaſon, that the people cannot be capable of any power…
Question 9QUEST. IX. Whether or no Soveraigntie is ſo from the people, that it remaineth in them in ſome part, ſo as…
Question 10QUEST. X. Whether or not Royall birth be equivalent to divine unction?
Question 11QUEST. XI. Whether or no he be more principally a King, who is a King by birth, or he who is a King by the…
Question 12QUEST. XII. Whether or not a Kingdome may lawfully be purchaſed by the ſole title of conqueſt?
Question 13QUEST. XIII. Whether or no Royall dignitie have its ſpring from nature, and how that is true (every man is…
Question 14QUEST. XIIII. Whether or no the people make a Perſon their King conditionally, or abſolutely? and whether…
Question 15QUEST. XV. Whether or no the King be Ʋnivocally, or only Analogically, and by proportion a father?
Question 16QUEST. XVI. Whether or no a deſpotiticall and maſterly dominion of men and things, agree to the King,…
Question 17QUEST. XVII. Whether or not the Prince have properly a fiduciarie, and miniſteriall power of a Tutor,…
Question 18QUEST. XVIII. What is the law of the King, and his Power? 1 Sam. 8. 11. This will be the manner of the King…
Question 19QUEST. XIX. Whether or no the King be in Dignity and power above the people?
Question 20QUEST. XX. Whether or no inferiour Judges be univocally and eſſentially Judges, and the immediate Vicars of…
Question 21QUEST. XXI. What power the People and States of Parliament have over the King, and in the State?
Question 22QUEST. XXII. Whether the power of the King as King be abſolute, or dependent and limited by Gods firſt…
Question 23QUEST. XXIII. Whother the King hath any Royall prerogative, or a power to diſpence with Lawes? And ſome…
Question 24QUEST. XXIV. What power hath the King in relation to the Law, and the people? And how a King and a Tyrant…
Question 25QUEST. XXV. What force the Supreme Law hath over the King▪ even that Law of the Peoples ſafetie, called,…
Question 26QUEST. XXVI. Whether the King be above the Law or no?
Question 27QUEST. XXVII. Whether or no the King be the ſole ſupreme and finall interpreter of the Law?
Question 28QUEST. XXVIII. Whether or no, Wars raiſed by the Subjects and Eſtates, for their own juſt defence againſt…
Question 29QUEST. XXIX. Whether, in the caſe of Defenſive warre, the diſtinction of the perſon of the King, as a man,…
Question 30QUEST. XXX. Whether or no Paſſive Obedience be a meane to which we are ſubjected in conſcience, by vertue…
Question 31QUEST. XXXI. Whether or no ſelf-defence againſt any unjuſt violence offered to the life, be warranted by…
Question 32QUEST. XXXII. Whether or no the lawfulneſſe of defenſive warres hath its warrant in Gods word, from the…
Question 33QUEST. XXXIII. Whether or no the place Rom. 13. 1. prove that in no caſe it is lawfull to reſiſt the King?
Question 34QUEST. XXXIIII. Whether Royaliſts by cogent reaſons do prove the unlawfulneſſe of defenſive warres?
Question 35QUEST. XXXV. Whether or no the ſuffering of the Martyrs in the Primitive Church militate againſt the…
Question 36QUEST. XXXVI. Whether the power of Warre be onely in the King?
Question 37QUEST. XXXVII. Whether or no it be lawfull that the Eſtates of Scotland help their oppreſſed brethren the…
Question 38QUEST. XXXVIII. Whether Monarchy be the beſt of governments?
Question 39QUEST. XXXIX. Whether or no any Prerogative at all above the law be due to the King? or if jura Majeſtatis…
Question 40QUEST. XL. Whether or no the people have any power over the King, either by his oath, covenant, or any…
Question 51QUEST. XLI. Whether doth the P. Prelate upon good grounds, aſcribe to us the doctrine of Jeſuites in theſe…
Question 52QUEST. XLII. Whether all Chriſtian Kings are dependent from Chriſt, and may be called his Vicegerents?
Question 53QUEST. XLIII. Whether the King of Scotland be an abſolute Prince, having Prerogatives above Parliament and…
Question 44QUEST. XLIV. Generall reſults of the former Doctrine, in ſome few Corollaries, or ſtraying Queſtions,…
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