A57975:181
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. God saith of Pharaoh, Exo. 9.7. I have raised thee up. Elisha from God constituted the King of Syria, 2 King 8.13. Pharaoh, Abimelech, Hiram, Hazael, Hadad, are no less honoured with the compellation of Kings, then David, Saul, &c. Jer. 29.9. Nebuchadnezzar is honoured to be called by way of excellency Gods servant, which God giveth to David, a King according to his own heart; and Isaiah 45.1, 2. Thus saith the Lord to his anointed Cyrus, and God nameth him near a hundred year before he was borne, Isaiah 44.28. He is my shepherd, Daniel 2.19, 20.17.24. God giveth Kingdoms to whom he will, Dan. 5.8. and p. 37. Empires, Kingdoms, Royalties are not disposed of by the composed contracts of men, but by the immediate hand and work of God, Hos. 13.11. I gave them a King in my anger, I took him away in my wrath: Job, He places Kings in the throne, &c.
P. Prelate. God saith of Pharaoh, Exo. 9.7. I have raised thee up. Elisha from God constituted the King of Syria, 2 King 8.13. Pharaoh, Abimelech, Hiram, Hazael, Hadad, are no lesse honoured with the compellation of Kings, then David, Saul, &c. Ier. 29.9. Nebuchadnezer is honoured to be called by way of excellency Gods servant, which God giveth to David, a King according to his owne heart; and Esay 45.1, 2. Thus saith the Lord to his anoynted Cyrus, and God nameth him neere a hundreth yeare before he was borne, Esay 44.28. He is my shepheard, Daniel 2.19, 20.17.24. God giveth Kingdomes to whom he will, Dan. 5.8. and p. 37. Empires, Kingdomes, Royalties are not disposed of by the composed contracts of men, but by the immediate hand and worke of God,