A57975:231
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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QUEST. IX. Whether or no Sovereignty is so from the people, that it remaineth in them in some part, so as they may in case of necessity resume it?
QUEST. IX. Whether or no Soveraigntie is so from the people, that it remaineth in them in some part, so as they may in case of necessitie resume it?
The Prelate will have it Babylonish confusion, that we are divided in opinion. Jesuits (saith he) place all Sovereignty in the community. Of the Sectaries; some warrant any one subject to make away his King, and that such a work is no less to be rewarded then when one killeth a wolf: Some say, this power is in the whole Community: some will have it in the collective body, not convened by warrant or writ of Sovereignty, but when necessity (which is often fancied) of reforming State and Church, calleth them together. Some in the Nobles and Peers, some in the three Estates assembled by the Kings writ, some in the inferior Judges.
THe Prelate will have it Babylonish confusion, that we are divided in opinion. Jesuites (saith he) place all Soveraigntie in the communitie. Of the Sectaries; some warrant any one subject to make away his King, and that such a worke is no lesse to be rewarded then when one killeth a wolfe: Some say, this power is in the whole Communitie: some will have it in the collective body, not conveened by warrant or writ of Soveraignty, but when necessitie (which is often fancied) of reforming State and Church, calleth them together. Some in the Nobles and Peeres, some in the three Estates assembled by the Kings writ, some in the inferour Iudges.
I answer: If the Prelate were not a Jesuit himself, he would not bid his brethren take the mote out of their eye: but there is nothing here said but which Barclaius said better before this Plagarius.