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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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2. The King is said to be from God, by way of naked approbation. God giving to a people power to appoint what Government they shall think good, but instituting none in special, in his Word. This way some make Kingly power to be from God in the general, ⟨p. 6⟩but in the particular to be an invention of men, negatively lawful, and not repugnant to the Word, as the wretched Popish ceremonies are from God. But we teach no such thing: let (i)Maxwell free his Master (k)Bellarmine and other Jesuits, with whom he sideth in Romish Doctrine: we are free of this. Bellarmine saith that politic power in general is warranted by a Divine law; but the particular forms of politic power, he meaneth Monarchy, with the first, is not by Divine right, but de jure •entium, by the law of nations, and sloweth immediately from humane election, as all things, saith he, that appertain to the law of Nations. So Monarchy to Bellarmine is but an humane invention, as Mr. Maxwell his Surplice is: and D. Ferne, sect. 3. p. 13. saith with Bellarmine.
2. The King is said to be from God, by way of naked approbation. God giving to a people power to appoint what Government they shall thinke good, but instituting none in speciall, in his Word. This way some make Kingly power to be from God in the generall, ⟨p. 6⟩but in the particular to be an invention of men, negatively lawfull, and not repugnant to the Word, as the wretched Popish ceremonies are from God. But we teach no such thing: let (i)Maxwell free his Master (k)Bellarmine and other Iesuites, with whom he sideth in Romish Doctrine: we are free of this. Bellarmine saith that politick power in generall is warranted by a Divine law; but the particular formes of politick power, he meaneth Monarchie, with the first, is not by Divine right, but de jure entium, by the law of nations, and sloweth immediately from humane election, as all things, saith he, that appertein to the law of Nations. So Monarchie to Bellarmine is but an humane invention, as Mr. Maxwell his Surplice is: and D. Ferne, sect. 3. p. 13. saith with Bellarmine.