A57975:154
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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3. Expressly Scripture saith, that the people made the King, though under God, Judg. 9.6. The men of Shechem made Abimelech King, 1 Sam. 11.15. And all the people went to Gilgall, and there they made Saul King before the Lord, 2 King. 10.5. We will not make any King. This had been an irrational speech to Jehu, if both Jehu and the people held the Royalists Tenet, that the people had no power to make a King, nor any active or causative influence therein; but that God immediately made the King, 1 Chron. 12.38. All these came with a perfect heart to make David King in Hebron; and all the rest were of one heart to make David King; on the words (a)Lavater saith, the same way are Magistrates now to be chosen; now this day God by an immediate Oracle from Heaven appointeth the Office of a King; but I am sure he doth not immediately design the man, but doth only mark him out to the people, as one who hath the most royal endowments, and the due qualifications required in a lawful Magistrate, by the Word of God, Exod. 18.21. Men of truth, hating covetousness, &c. Deut. 1.16, 17. men who will judge causes betwixt their brethren righteously, without respect of persons, ⟨p. 13⟩1 Sam. 10.21. Saul was chosen out of the Tribes according to the Law of God, Deut. 17. they might not choose a stranger, and Abulensis, Serrarius, Cornelius a lapide, Sanchez, and other Popish Writers think that Saul was not only anointed with Oil, first privately by Samuel, 1 Sam. 10.1, 2