A57975:170
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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P. Prelate. Kings are of God, they are Gods, 1children of the most High, his servants▪ public Ministers, their sword and judgement Gods. This he hath said of their royalty in abstracto, and in concreto; their power, person, charge, are all of divine extract, and so their authority and person are both sacred and inviolable. Answ. So are all the congregation of the Judges, Psal. 82. v. 1.6. all of them Gods: for he speaketh not there of a congregation of Kings. So are Apostles, their office and persons of God;2 and so the Prelates (they think) the successors of the Apostles, are Gods servants, their ministry, word, rod of discipline not theirs, but of God: the judgement of Judges, inferior to the King, is the Lords judgement, not mens, Deut. 1.17. 2. Chro. 19.6. Hence by the Prelates Logic, the persons of Prelates, Majors, Bailiffs, Constables, Pastors, are sacred and inviolable above all laws, as are Kings. Is this an extolling of Kings? 2. But where are Kings persons, as men, said to be of God, as the Royalty in abstracto i• ? The Prelate seeth beside his book, Psal. •2.7. But ye shall die as men.
P. Prelate. Kings are of God, they are Gods, 1children of the most High, his servants▪ publike Ministers, their sword and judgement Gods. This he hath said of their royaltie in abstracto, and in concreto; their power, person, charge, are all of divine extract, and so their authoritie and person are both sacred and inviolable. Answ. So are all the congregation of the Iudges, Psal. 82. v. 1.6. all of them Gods: for he speaketh not there of a congregation of Kings. So are Apostles, their office and persons of God;