A57975:166
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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The first way, Sovereignty is not from God. The second way, Sovereignty is conferred on Kings immediately, though some created act of Election, succession, conquests intervene, the interposed act containeth not in it power to confer Sovereignty; as in Baptism, Regeneration, if there be nothing repugnant in the suscipient, is conferred, not by water, but immediately by God. In sacred Orders designation is from men, power to supernatural acts from God: election, succession, conquests remotely and improperly constitute a King. To say in the third sense that sovereignty is immediately from God, by approbation or confirmation only, is against Scripture, Prov. 8.15. Psa. 82.8. Joh. 19. then the people say; you are Gods, your power is from below. And Pauls, (ordained of God) is (approved and confirmed only of God) the power of designation, or application of the person to royalty is from man; the power of conferring royal power, or of applying the person to royal power is from God. A mans hand may apply a faggot to the fire, the fire only maketh the faggot to burn.
The first way, Soveraignty is not from God. The second way, Soveraignty is conferred on Kings immediatly, though some created act of Election, succession, conquests intervene, the interposed act containeth not in it power to conferre Soveraignty; as in Baptisme, Regeneration, if there be nothing repugnant in the suscipient, is conferred, not by water, but immediatly by God. In sacred Orders designation is from men, power to supernaturall acts from God: election, succession, conquests remotely and improperly constitute a King. To say in the third sence that soveraignty is immediatly from God, by approbation or confirmation onely, is against Scripture, Prov. 8.15. Psa. 82.8. Ioh. 19. then the people say; you are Gods, your power is from below. And Pauls, (ordained of God) is (approved and confirmed onely of God) the power of designation, or application of the person to royalty is from man; the power of conferring royall power, or of applying the person to royall power is from God. A mans hand may apply a faggot to the fire, the fire onely maketh the faggot to burne.