A57975:197
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. All the royal ensigns and acts of Kings are ascribed to God. The Crown is of God, Esa. 62.3. Psal. 21.3. in the Emperors coin was an hand putting a crown on their head: the Heathen said they were [Greek or Hebrew] as holding their Crowns from God. Psal. 18.39. Thou hast girt me with strength (the sword is the emblem of strength) unto battle. See Jud. 7.17. their sceptre, Gods sceptre. Exod. 4.20, 17, 9. we read of two rods, Moses and Aaron's; Aaron's rod budded; God made both the rods; Their judgement is the Lords. 2 Chron. 19.6. their throne is Gods, 1▪ Chron. 19.21. The Fathers called them, sacra vestigia, sacra majestas; their commandments, Divalis jussio. The Law ⟨p. 36⟩saith, all their goods are res sacrae. Ergo, our new Statists disgrace Kings, if they blaspheme not God, in making them the derivatives of the people, the basest extract of the basest of irrational creatures, the Multitude, the Commonalty▪
P. Prelate. All the royall ensignes and acts of Kings are ascribed to God. The Crown is of God, Esa. 62.3. Psal. 21.3. in the Emperours coyne was an hand putting a crowne on their head: the Heathen said they were 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 as holding their Crownes from God. Psal. 18.39. Thou hast girt me with strength (the sword is the embleme of strength) unto battell. See Iud. 7.17. their scepter, Gods scepter. Exod. 4.20, 17, 9. we read of two rods, Moses and Aarons; Aarons rod budded; God made both the rods; Their judgement is the Lords.