A57975:20
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 have not time to examine the P. Prelates Preface, only, I give a taste of his gall in this preface, and of a virulent piece, of his (agnosco stylum et genium Thrasonis) In ⟨image 3⟩which he laboureth to prove how inconsistent presbyterial government is with Monarchy, or any other government.
I have not time to examine the P. Prelates Preface, only, I give a tast of his gall in this preface, and of a virulent peece, of his (agnosco stylum et genium Thrasonis) In ⟨image 3⟩which he laboureth to prove how inconsistent presbyteriall government is with Monarchy, or any other government.
1 He denieth that the Crown and Sceptre is under any coactive power of Pope, or Presbytery, or censurable, or dethroneable: to which we say, Presbyteries profess that Kings are under the coactive power of Christs keys of discipline, and that Prophets and Pastors, as Ambassadors of Christ, have the keys of the kingdom of God, to open and let in believing Princes, and also to shut them out, if they rebel against Christ; the law of Christ excepteth none, Mat. 16.19. Mat. 18.15, 16. 2 Cor. 10.6. Jer. 1.9.18. if the Kings sins may be remitted in a ministerial way, as Joh. 20.23, 24. as Prelates and their Priests absolve Kings; we think they may be bound by the hand that loosed, Presbyteries never dethroned Kings, never usurped that power; Your father P. Prelate, hath dethroned many Kings; I mean the Pope, whose power,