A57975:238
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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But I now follow the P. Prelate. Some of the adversaries, 1as Buchanan, say that the Parliament hath no power to make a law, but only a [Greek or Hebrew] without the approbation of the Community. Others, as the the Observator, say, that the right of the Gentry and Commonalty is entirely in the Knights and Burgesses of the House of Commons, and will have their Orders irrevocable. If then the common people cannot resume their power, and oppose the Parliament, 2how can Tables and Parliaments resume their power, and resist the King?
But I now follow the P. Prelate. Some of the adversaries, 1as Buchanan, say that the Parliament hath no power to make a law, but only a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 without the approbation of the Communitie. Others, as the the Observator, say, that the right of the Gentry and Communalty is intirely in the Knights and Burgesses of the House of Commons, and will have their Orders irrevocable. If then the common people cannot resume their power, and oppose the Parliament, 2how can Tables and Parliaments resume their power, and resist the King?
- 1Sac. Reg. Maj. The sacred an• royal prerogative of King c. 9. p. 101.102Sac. Reg. Maj. The sacred an• royall prerogative of King c. 9. p. 101.102
- 2Stolen from Barclaius.Stollen from Barclaius.