A57975:179
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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I go on with the Prelate, c. 3. Sacred Sovereignty is to be preserved, and Kings are to be prayed for, that we may lead a godly life, 1 Tim. 3. What then? 1. All in authority are to be prayed for, even Parliaments, by that text Pastors are to be prayed for, and without them sound religion cannot well subsist. 2. Is this questioned, but Kings should be prayed for; or are we wanting in this duty? but it followeth not that all dignities to be prayed for are immediately from God, not from men. Prelate, Prov. 8. Solomon speaketh first of the establishment of Government, before he speak of the works of Creation, ergo better not be at all, as be without government. And God fixed government in the person of Adam before Eve, or any else came into the world; and how shall government be, and we enjoy the fruits of it, except we preserve the Kings sacred Authority inviolable? Ans. Moses, Gen. 1. speaketh of Creation before he speaketh of Kings, and Moses speaketh, Gen. 3. of Adams sins before he speaks of redemption through the blessed seed; ergo better never be redeemed at all, as to to be without sin. 2. If God made Adam a governor before he made Eve, and any of Mankind, he was made a father and a husband before he had either son or wife. Is this the Prelates Logic? he may prove that two eggs on his fathers Table are three this way. 3. There is no government where sovereignty is not kept inviolable. It is true, where there is a King, sovereignty must be inviolable, What then? Arbitrary government is not sovereignty. 4. He intimateth Aristocracy, and Democracy, and the power of Parliaments, which maketh Kings to be nothing but Anarchy; for he speaketh here of no government, but Monarchy, P. Prelate, there is need of grace to obey the King, Ps. 18.43. Ps. 144.2. It is God who subdueth the people under David. 2. Rebellion against the King is rebellion against God. Pet. 2.17. Prov, 24.12. Ergo Kings have a near alliance with God.
I goe on with the Prelate, c. 3. Sacred Soveraignty is to be preserved, and Kings are to be prayed for, that we may lead a godly life,