A57975:119
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.
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QUEST. XLIII. Whether the King of Scotland be an absolute Prince, having prerogatives above Laws and Parliaments? Negatur. p. 433, 434. The King of Scotland subject to Parliaments by the fundamental Laws, Acts, and constant practises of Parliaments, ancient and late in Scotland, p. 433, 434, 435, 436. seq. The King of Scotland's Oath at his Coronation, p. 434. A pretended absolute power given to K. James 6. upon respect of personal endowments, no ground of absoluteness to the King of Scotland, p. 435, 436. By Laws and constant practises the Kings of Scotland subject to Laws and Parliaments, proved by the fundamental Law of elective Princes, and out of the most partial Historicians, and our Acts of Parliament of Scotland, p. 439, 440. Coronation oath, ibid. And again at the Coronation of K. James the 6. that oath sworn; and again, 1 Par. K. Jam. 6. ibid. & seq. p. 452, 453. How the King is supreme Judge in all causes, p. 437. The power of the Parliaments of Scotland, ibid. The confession of the faith of the Church of Scotland, authorized by divers Acts of Parliament, doth evidently hold forth to all the reformed Churches, the lawfulness of defensive Wars, when the supreme Magistrate is misled by wicked Counsel, p. 440, 441, 442. The same proved from the Confessions of Faith in other reformed Churches, ibid. The place, Rom. 13. exponed in our Confession of Faith, p. 441, 442, 443. The Confession not only Saxonick, exhibited to the Council of Trent, but also of Helvetia, France, England, Bohemia, prove the same, p. 444, 445. William Laud, and other Prelates, enemies to Parliaments, to States, and to the Fundamental Laws of the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, p. 446, 447, 448. ⟨image 21⟩The Parliament of Scotland doth regulate, limit, and set bounds to the Kings power, p. 448, 449, Fergus the first King, not a Conqueror, p. 449. The King of Scotland below Parliaments, considerable by them, hath no negative voice, p. 450, 451, seq.
QVEST. XLIII. Whether the King of Scotland be an absolute Prince, having prerogatives above Laws and Parliaments? Negatur. p. 433, 434. The King of Scotland subject to Parliaments by the fundamentall Lawes, Acts, and constant practises of Parliaments, ancient and late in Scotland, p. 433, 434, 435, 436. seq. The King of Scotlands Oath at his Coronation, p. 434. A pretended absolute povver given to K. Iames 6. upon respect of personall indowments, no ground of absolutenesse to the King of Scotland, p. 435, 436. By Lawes and constant practises the Kings of Scotland subject to Lawes and Parliaments, proved by the fundamentall Law of elective Princes, and out of the most partiall Historicians, and our Acts of Parliament of Scotland, p. 439, 440. Coronation oath, ibid. And again at the Coronation of K. James the 6. that oath sworn; and again, 1 Par. K. Jam. 6. ibid. & seq. p. 452, 453. How the King is supreme Iudge in all causes, p. 437. The power of the Parliaments of Scotland, ibid. The confession of the faith of the Church of Scotland, authorized by divers Acts of Parliament, doth evidently hold forth to all the reformed Churches, the lawfulnesse of defensive Wars, when the supreme Magistrate is misled by wicked Counsell, p. 440, 441, 442. The same proved from the Confessions of Faith in other reformed Churches, ibid. The place,