A57975:101
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. XXV. Whether the supreme Law, the safety of the people, be above the King? Affirmed, p. 218. The safety of the people to be preferred to the King, for the King is no• to seek himself, but the good of the people, p. 218, 219. Royalists make no Kings, but Tyrants, p. 222. How the safety of the King is the safety of the people, p. 223. A King for the safety of the people, may break through the Letter and paper of a Law, p. 227. The Kings prerogative above Law and Reason, not comparable to the blood that has been shed in Ireland and England, p. 225, 226, 228. The power of Dictators prove not a Prerogative above Law, p. 229, 230.
QUEST. XXV. Whether the supreme Law, the safetie of the people, be above the King? Affirmed, p. 218. The safetie of the people to be preferred to the King, for the King is no• to seek himself, but the good of the people, p. 218, 219. Royalists make no Kings, but Tyrants, p. 222. How the safetie of the King is the safetie of the people, p. 223. A King for the safetie of the people, may break through the Letter and paper of a Law, p. 227. The Kings prerogative above Law and Reason, not comparable to the blood that has been shed in Ireland and England, p. 225, 226, 228. The power of Dictators prove not a Prerogative above Law, p. 229, 230.
QUEST. XXVI. Whether the King be above the Law? p. 230, 231. The Law above the King in four things, 1. In constitution, 2. Direction, 3. Limitation, 4. Coaction, p. 231. In what sense the King may do all things, p. 231, 232. The King under the morality of Laws. 2. Under Fundamental Laws, not under punishment to be inflicted by himself, nor because ⟨image 17⟩of the eminency of his place, but for the physical incongruity thereof, p. 232, 233. If, and how the King may punish himself? p. 233. That the King transgressing in a heinous manner, is under the Coaction of Law, proved by seven Arguments, p. 234, 235, seq. The Coronation of a King, who is supposed to be a just Prince, yet proveth after a Tyrant, is conditional, and from ignorance, and so unvoluntary; and in so far, not obligatory in Law, p. 234, 235. Royalists confess, a Tyrant in exercise may be dethroned, p. 235, 236. How the people is the seat of the power of Sovereignty, p. 239, 240. The place,