A57975:207
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. 6 To whom can it be due to give the Kingly office, but to him only who is able to give the indument and ability for the office? now God only and immediately giveth ability to be a King, as the Sacramental anointing proveth, Josh 3.10. Othniel is the first Judge after Joshua; and it is said, And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and ⟨p. 41⟩and he judged Israel; the like is said of Saul and David. Ans. God gave royal endowments immediately, ergo he immediately now maketh the King. It followeth not, for the species of government is not that which formally constituteth a King, for then Nero, Caligula, Julian should not have been Kings, and those who come to the Crown by conquest and blood, are essentially Kings, as the Prelate saith; but be all these Othniels, upon whom the spirit of the Lord cometh? then they are not essentially Kings who are babes and children, and foolish and destitute of the royal endowments, but it is one thing to have a royal gift, and another thing to be formally called to the Kingdom, David had royal gifts after Samuel anointed him, but if you make him King, before Sauls death, Saul was both a traitor all the time that he persecuted David, and so no King, and also King and Gods anointed, as David acknowledgeth him; and therefore that spirit that came on David, and Saul, maketh nothing against the peoples election of a King, as the Spirit of God is given to Pastors under the new Testament, as Christ promised; but it will not follow that the designation of the man who is to be Pastor, should not be from the Church and from men, as the Prelate denieth that either the constitution or designation of the King is from the people, but from God only. 2. I believe the infusion of the spirit of God upon the Judges will not prove that Kings are now both constituted and designed of God solely, only, and immediately;
P. Prelate. 6 To whom can it be due to give the Kingly office, but to him only who is able to give the indument and abilitie for the office? now God only and immediately giveth abilitie to be a King, as the Sacramentall anointing proveth, Josh 3.10. Othniel is the first Judge after Joshua; and it is said, And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and ⟨p. 41⟩and he judged Israel; the like is said of Saul and David. Ans. God gave royall indowments immediatly, ergo he immediatly now maketh the King. It followeth not, for the species of government is not that which formally constituteth a King, for then Nero, Caligula, Iulian should not have been Kings, and those who come to the Crowne by conquest and blood, are essentially Kings, as the Prelate saith; but be all these Othniels, upon whom the spirit of the Lord commeth? then they are not essentially Kings who are babes and children, and foolish and destitute of the royall endowments, but it is one thing to have a royall gift, and another thing to be formally called to the Kingdome, David had royall gifts after Samuel anoynted him, but if you make him King, before Sauls death, Saul was both a traytor all the time that he persecuted David, and so no King, and also King and Gods anoynted, as David acknowledgeth him; and therefore that spirit that came on David, and Saul, maketh nothing against the peoples election of a King, as the Spirit of God is given to Pastors under the new Testament, as Christ promised; but it will not follow that the designation of the man who is to be Pastor, should not be from the Church and from men, as the Prelate denyeth that either the constitution or designation of the King is from the people, but from God onely. 2. I beleeve the infusion of the spirit of God upon the Iudges will not prove that Kings are now both constituted and designed of God solely, onely, and immediatly;