A57975:100
Lex, Rex
Lex, rex The law and the prince : a dispute for the just prerogative of king and people : containing the reasons and causes of the most necessary defensive wars of the kingdom of Scotland and of their expedition for the aid and help of their dear brethren of England : in which their innocency is asserted and a full answer is given to a seditious pamphlet entitled Sacro-sancta regum majestas, or, The sacred and royal prerogative of Christian kings, under the name of J. A. but penned by Jo. Maxwell the excommunicate P. Prelate. : with a scriptural confutation of the ruinous grounds of W. Barclay, H. Grotius, H. Arnisœus, Ant. de Domi P. Bishop of Spalata, and of other late anti-magistratical royalists, as the author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the doctors of Aberdeen, &c. : in XLIV questions.Lex, rex The law and the prince : a dispute for the just prerogative of king and people : containing the reasons and causes of the most necessary defensive wars of the kingdom of Scotland and of their expedition for the ayd and help of their dear brethren of England : in which their innocency is asserted and a full answer is given to a seditious pamphlet intituled Sacro-sancta regum majestas, or, The sacred and royall prerogative of Christian kings, under the name of J. A. but penned by Jo. Maxwell the excommunicate P. Prelat. : with a scripturall confutation of the ruinous grounds of W. Barclay, H. Grotius, H. Arnisœus, Ant. de Domi P. Bishop of Spalata, and of other late anti-magistratical royalists, as the author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the doctors of Aberdeen, &c. : in XLIV questions.
London: printed for John Field, 1644London: printed for Iohn Field, 1644
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QUEST. XXIV. What relation the King hath to the Law? p. 207. Humane Laws considered as reasonable, or as penal, ibid. The King alone hath not a Nemothetick power, p. 208. Whether the King be above Parliaments, as their Judge? p. 208, p. 209, 210, 211. ⟨image 16⟩Subordination of the King to the Parliament, and coordination both consistent, p. 210, 211. Each one of the three Governments hath somewhat from each other, and they cannot any one of them, be in its prevalency, conveniently without the mixture of the other two, p. 211, 212. The King as a King cannot err, as he erreth in so far, he is not the remedy of oppression and Anarchy, intended by God and nature, p. 212. In the court of necessity, the people may judge the King, p. 213. Humane Laws not so obscure as tyranny is visible and discernible, p. 213, 214. Its more requisite, that the whole people, Church, and Religion, be secured, then one man, p. 215. If there be any restraint by Law on the King, it must be physical; for a moral restraint is upon all men, p. 214, 215. To swear to an absolute Prince as absolute, is an oath eatenus, in so far unlawful, and not obligatory, p. 215.
QUEST. XXIV. What relation the King hath to the Law? p. 207. Humane Laws considered as reasonable, or as penal, ibid. The King alone hath not a Nemothetick power, p. 208. Whether the King be above Parliaments, as their Iudge? p. 208, p. 209, 210, 211. ⟨image 16⟩Subordination of the King to the Parliament, and coordination both consistent, p. 210, 211. Each one of the three Governments hath somewhat from each other, and they cannot any one of them, be in its prevalency, conveniently without the mixture of the other two, p. 211, 212. The King as a King cannot erre, as he erreth in so far, he is not the remedie of oppression and Anarchie, intended by God and nature, p. 212. In the court of necessitie, the people may judge the King, p. 213. Humane Laws not so obscure as tyranny is visible and discernable, p. 213, 214. Its more requisite, that the whole people, Church, and Religion, be secured, then one man, p. 215. If there be any restraint by Law on the King, it must be physicall; for a morall restraint is upon all men, p. 214, 215. To swear to an absolute Prince as absolute, is an oath eatenus, in so far unlawfull, and not obligatory, p. 215.