A57975:195
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 only anointed David, 1 Sam. 16.4. the men of Bethlehem, yea Samuel knew it not before. God saith, with mine holy oil have I anointed him, Ps. 89.91. 1. He is the Lords anointed 2. The oil is Gods, 1not from the Apothecaries shop, nor the Priests Vial; this oil descended from the Holy Ghost, who is no less the true Olive, then Christ is the true Vine; yet not the oil of saving grace, as some Fantastics say, but holy, 1. From the Author God. 2. From influence in the person, it maketh the Person of the King sacred. 3. From influence on his charge, his function and power is sacred. Ans. 1. The Prelate said before Davids anointing was extraordinary; here he draweth this anointing to all Kings. 2. Let David be formally both constituted and designed King divers years before the States made him King at Hebron, 2and then 1. Saul was not King, the Prelate will term that treason. 2. This was a dry oil, David his person was not made sacred, nor his authority sacred by it; for he remained a private man, and called Saul his King, his Master, and himself a subject 3. This oil was no doubt Gods Oil, and the Prelate will have it the Holy Ghosts, yet he denieth that saving grace, yea (p. 2. c. 1) he denieth that any supernatural gift should be the foundation of Royal dignity, and that it is a pernicious tenet. So to me he would have the Oil from Heaven, and not from Heaven. 4. This holy oil ⟨p. 35⟩wherewith David was anointed, Psalm 89.20. to (a)Augustine, is the oil of saving grace: His own dear brethren the Papists say so, and especially (b)Lyranus, (c)Glossa ordinaria, (d)Hugo Cardinal,