A57975:204
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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for then the work of mans redemption being more excellent then the raising of Lazarus, should have been done immediately without the incarnation, death and satisfaction of Christ (for no act of God without himself is comparable to the work of redemption, 1 Pet. 1.11, 12. Col. 1.18, 19, 20, 21, 22.) and Gods less excellent works, as his creating of beasts and worms should have been done mediately, and his creating of man immediately.
for then the worke of mans redemption being more excellent then the raysing of Lazarus, should have been done immediatly without the incarnation, death and satisfaction of Christ (for no act of God without himselfe is comparable to the worke of redemption, 1 Pet. 1.11, 12. Col. 1.18, 19, 20, 21, 22.) and Gods lesse excellent workes, as his creating of beasts and wormes should have been done mediatly, and his creating of man immediatly.
P. P. They who execute the judgement of God, must needs have the power to judge from God. But Kings are Deputies in the exercises of the Judgements of God, ergo, the proposition is proved. How is it imaginable that God reconcileth the world by Ministers, and saveth man by them, 1 Cor. 5. 1 Tim. 4.16. except they receive a power so to do from God? the assumption is, Deut. 1.17. 1 Chro. 19.6. Let none say Moses and Jehoshaphat speak of inferior Judges, for that which the King doth to others, he doth by himself; also 5. The execution of the Kingly power is from God, for the King is the Servant, Angel, Legate, Minister of God,