A57975:145
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. IIII. Whether the king be only and immediately from God, & not from the people.
QUEST. IIII. Whether the king be only and imediatly from God, & not from the people.
That this question may be the clearer, we are to set down these Considerations.
THat this question may be the clearer, we are to set down these Considerations.
1. The question is, Whether the Kingly Office it self come from God; I conceive it is, and floweth from the people,1 not by formal institution; as if the people had by an act of reason, devised and excogitated such a power: God ordained the power; it is from the people only by a virtual emanation, in respect that a community having no Government at all, may ordain a King, or appoint an Aristocracy. But the question is, concerning the designation of the person? Whence is it that this man, rather then this man, is crowned ⟨p. 10⟩King? and whence is it, from God immediately, and only, that this man rather then this man, and this race or family rather then that race and family is chosen for the Crown? or is it from the people also, and their free choice? for the Pastor and the Doctors Office is from Christ only; but that John rather then Thomas be the Doctor or the Pastor, is from the will; and choice of men, the Presbyters and people.