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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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Lex, Rex. › Question 38: QUEST. XXXVIII. Whether Monarchy be the best of governments?
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QUEST. XXXVIII. Whether Monarchy be the best of governments?
Nothing more unwillingly do I write then one word of this question. It is a dark way; circumstances in fallen nature may make things best to be, hic & nunc, evill: Though to me it is probable, that Monarchy in it selfe, 2. Monarchy, de jure, that is, lawful and limited Monarchy is best; even now in a Kingdom, under the fall of sin, if other circumstances be considered.
NOthing more unwillingly doe I write then one word of this question. It is a darke way; circumstances in falne nature may make things best to be, hic & nunc, evill: Though to me it is probable, that Monarchy in it selfe, 2. Monarchy, de jure, that is, lawfull and limited Monarchy is best; even now in a Kingdome, under the fall of sin, if other circumstances be considered.
1But observe I pray you, 1. That M. Symmons, and this poor Prelate, do so extol Monarchy, that there is not a government save Monarchy only, all other governments are deviations; and therefore M. Symmons saith, pag. 8. If I should affect another government then Monarchy, I should neither fear God, nor the King, but associate my self with the seditious: and so the question of Monarchy is, 1. Which is the choicest government in it self; or, which is the choicest government in policy, and in the condition of man fallen in the state of sin. 2. Which is the best government, that is, the most profitable, or the most pleasant,