A57975:208
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 the Judges were indeed immediately and for the most part extraordinarily raised up of God, and God indeed in the time of the Jews was the King of Israel in another manner then he was the King of all the nations, and is the King of Christian Realms now, and therefore the peoples despising of Samuel, was a refusing that God should reign over them, because God in the Judges revealed himself even in matters of Policy, as what should be done to the man that gathered sticks on the Sabbath day, and the like, as he doth not now to Kings.
for the Iudges were indeed immediatly and for the most part extraordinarily raised up of God, and God indeed in the time of the Iewes was the King of Israel in another manner then he was the King of all the nations, and is the King of Christian Realmes now, and therefore the peoples despising of Samuel, was a refusing that God should reigne over them, because God in the Iudges revealed himselfe even in matters of Policy, as what should be done to the man that gathered sticks on the Sabbath day, and the like, as he doth not now to Kings.
P. Prelate. Sovereignty is a ray of divine glory and majesties but this cannot be found in people, whether you consider them jointly, or singly; if you consider them singly, it cannot be in every individual man; for Sectaries say, That all are born equal with a like freedom: and if it be not in the people singly, it cannot be in them jointly; for all the contribution in this compact and contract which they fancy to be humane composition, and voluntary constitution, is only, by a surrender of the native right that every one had in himself; from whence ⟨p. 42⟩then can this majesty and authority be derived? Again, where the obligation amongst equals is by contract and compact, violation of the faith, plighted in the contract, cannot in proper terms, be called disobedience, or contempt of authority: it is no more but a receding from, and a violation of that which was promised, as it may be in States or Counties confederate. Nature, reason, conscience, scripture, teach, That disobedience to Sovereign power is not only a violation of Truth, breach of Covenant, but also high disobedience and contempt, as is clear,