A57975:211
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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1Ans. 1. I never heard any shadow of reason while now, and yet (because the lie hath a latitude) here is but a shadow, which the Prelate stole from M. Antonius de Dominis Archiepisc. Spalatensis, and I may say confidently, this Plagiarius hath not one line in his book which is not stolen; and for the present Spalato his argument is but spilt, and the nerves cut from it, while it is both bleeding and lamed. Let the Reader compare them, and I pawn my credit he hath ignorantly clipped Spalato: But I answer, 1. Sovereignty is a beam and ray (as Spalato saith) of divine majesty, and is not either ⟨p. 43⟩formally or virtually in the people. So he. It is false, that it is not virtually in the people: for there be two things in the Judge, either inferior or supreme (for the argument holdeth in the majesty of a Parliament, as we shall hear) 1. The gift or grace of Governing (the Arminian Prelate will offend at this.) 2. The Authority of governing: 1. The gift is supernatural, and is not in man naturally, and so not in the King; for he is physically but a mortal man, and this is a gift received; for Solomon asked it by prayer from God. There is a capacity passive in all individual men for it: as for the official authority it self, it is virtually in all, in whom any of Gods image is remaining, since the fall, as is clear; as may be gathered from, Gen. 1.28. yea, the Father, the Master, the Judge, have it by Gods institution in some measure, over son, servant, and subject, though it be more in the supreme Ruler: and for our purpose, it is not requisite that authoritative majesty should be in all. (What is in the Father and Husband, I hope to clear) I mean, it needeth not to be formally in all, and so all are born alike and equal: But he who is a Papist, a Socinian, an Arminian, and therefore delivered to Satan by his mother Church, must be the Sectary, for we are where this Prelate left us, maintainers of the Protestant Religion, continued in the Confession of Faith, and National Covenant of Scotland, when this Demas forsook us, and embraced the World. 2. Though not on single man in Israel be a Judge, or King by nature, nor have in them formally any ray of Royalty, or of Magistratical Authority; yet it followeth not, that Israel Parliamentarily convened, hath no such authority, as to make Saul King in Mizpah, and David King in Hebron,