A57975:152
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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12 Conclus. The power of creating a man a King, is from the people, 1. Because those who may create this man a King, rather then ⟨p. 11⟩thi• man, they have power to appoint a King. For a comparative act on doth positively infer an action if a man have a power to marry this woman, not that woman; we may strongly conclude, ergo he hath power to marry, now, 1 King. 16. The people made Omri King, and not Zimri; and his son Ahab, rather then Tibni the son of Sinath. Nor can it be replied this was no lawful power that the people used, for that cannot elude the argument, for, 1 King. 1. the people made Solomon King, and not Adonijah, though Adonijah was the elder brother; they say, God did extraordinarily both make the Office, and design Solomon to be King, the people had no hand in it, but approved Gods fact. Answer. This is that we say, God by the people, by Nathan the Prophet, and the servants of David, and the States crying, (God save King Solomon) made Solomon King; and here is a real action of the people. God is the first Agent in all acts of the Creature, where a people maketh choice of a man to be their King, the States do no other thing under God but create this man, rather then another; and we cannot here find two actions, one of God, another of the people; but in one, and the same action; God by the peoples free suffrages & voices createth such a man King, passing by many thousands, and the people are not patients in the action, because by the authoritative choice of the States, the man is made of a private man, and no King, a public person, and a crowned King, 2 Sam. 16.18. Hushai said to Absalom, nay but whom the Lord and this people, and all the men of Israel choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide, Judg. 8.22. The men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule thou over us, Judg. 9.6. The men of Shechem made Abimelech King,