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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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QUEST. XLII. Whether all Christian Kings are dependent from Christ, and may be called his Vicegerents, Negatur, p. 422. Why God as God, hath a man a Vicegerent under him, but not as Mediator, p. 422, 423. The King not head of the Church, ibid. The King a sub-mediator, and an under redeemer, and a sub-priest to offer sacrifices to God for us, if he be a Vicegerent, p. 423. The King no mixed person, ibid. Prelates deny Kings to be subject to the Gospel, p. 426, 427. By no Prerogative Royal, may the King prescribe religious observances, and humane ceremonies in Gods worship, p. 424, 425. The P. P. giveth to the King a power Arbitrary, supreme and independent to govern the Church, p. 429, 430. ⟨image 20⟩Reciprocation of subjections of the King, to the Church, & of the Church to the King, in divers kinds, to wit of Ecclesiastical and civill subjection, are no more absurd, then for Aaron's Priest to teach, instruct and rebuke Moses, if he turn a tyrannous Ahab, and Moses to punish Aaron, if he turn an obstinate Idolator, p. 430, 4•3
QUEST. XLII. Whether all Christian Kings are dependent from Christ, and may be called his Vicegerents, Negatur, p. 422. Why God as God, hath a man a Vicegerent under him, but not as Mediator, p. 422, 423. The King not head of the Church, ibid. The King a sub-mediator, and an under redeemer, and a sub-priest to offer sacrifices to God for us, if he be a Vicegerent, p. 423. The King no mixt person, ibid. Prelates deny Kings to be subject to the Gospel, p. 426, 427. By no Prerogative Royall, may the King prescribe religious observances, and humane ceremonies in Gods worship, p. 424, 425. The P. P. giveth to the King a power Arbitrary, supreme and independent to govern the Church, p. 429, 430. ⟨image 20⟩Reciprocation of subjections of the King, to the Church, & of the Church to the King, in divers kindes, to wit of Ecclesiasticall and civill subjection, are no more absurd, then for Aarons Priest to teach, instruct and rebuke Moses, if he turne a tyrannous Achab, and Moses to punish Aaron, if he turn an obstinate Idolator, p. 430, 43