A57975:263
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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Mr. Symmons saith that birth is the best title to the Crown, because after the first of the family had been anointed, 1unction was no more used in that family, (unless there arose a strife about the Kingdom, as betwixt Solomon and Adonijah, Joash and Athalia) the eldest son of the predecessor was afterward the chosen of the Lord, his birth-right spake the Lords appointment, as plainly as his fathers unction. Ans. It is a conjecture that unction was not used in the ⟨p. 74⟩family, after the first unction, except the contest was betwixt two Brethren, that is said, not proved, for 2 King. 23.30. when good Josiah was killed, and there was no contest concerning the Throne of that beloved Prince, the people of the Land took Jehoahaz his son and anointed him, and made him King in his fathers stead; and the Priests were anointed, Levit. 6.22. yea, all the Priests were anointed, Num. 3.•. yet read we not in the History, where this or this man was anointed. 2. In that Adonijah, Solomons elder Brother was not King, it is clear, That Gods anointing, and the peoples electing, made the right to the Crown, and not birth. 3. Birth de facto did design the man,2 because of Gods special promises to Davids house; but how doth a typical descent made to David, and some others by Gods special promise, prove, that birth is the birth-right, and lawful call of God to a Crown in all after ages? For as gifts to reign, goeth not by birth, so neither doth Gods title to a Crown go.
Mr. Symmons saith that birth is the best title to the Crowne, because after the first of the family had been anoynted, 1unction was no more used in that family, (unlesse there arose a strife about the Kingdome, as betwixt Solomon and Adonijah, Ioash and Athalia) the eldest sonne of the predecessor was afterward the chosen of the Lord, his birth-right spake the Lords appointment, as plainly as his fathers unction. Ans. It is a conjecture that unction was not used in the