A57975:114
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. XXXVIII. Whether Monarchy be the best of Governments. Affir. p. 384. Whether Monarchy be the best of Governments hath divers considerations, in which each one may be less or more convenient. p. 384, 385. Absolute Monarchy is the worst of Governments. p. 385. Better want power to do ill as have it, ibid. A mixture sweetest of all Governments, p. 387. Neither King nor Parliament have a voice against Law and reason, ibid.
QVEST. XXXVIII. Whether Monarchy be the best of Governments. Affir. p. 384. Whether Monarchy be the best of Governments hath divers considerations, in which each one may be lesse or more convenient. p. 384, 385. Absolute Monarchy is the worst of Governments. p. 385. Better want power to doe ill as have it, ibid. A mixture sweetest of all Governments, p. 387. Neither King nor Parliament have a voyce against Law and reason, ibid.
QUEST. XXXIX. Whether or no, any Prerogative at all above the Law be due to the King? Or if jura majestatis be any such Prerogative? Negatur, p. 389. A threefold supreme power, ibid. What be jura regalia, p. 390, 391. Kings confer not honours from their plenitude of absolute power, but according to the strait line and rule of Law, justice, and good deserving, ibid. The Law of the King, 1 Sam. 8.9, 11. p. 392, 393. Difference of Kings and Judges, ibid. The Law of the King, 1 Sam. 8.9, 11. No permissive Law such as the Law of divorce, p. 394. What dominion the King hath over the goods of the subjects, p. 395, 396, 397.