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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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1Obj. 3. It is accidental to any to render himself a slave, being occasioned by force or extreme indigence, but to submit to Government congruous to the condition of man, and is necessary for his happy being, and natural, and necessary by the inviolable Ordinance of God and nature. Ans. If the father be a slave, it is natural and not accidental, by the Prelates Logic, to be a slave. 2. it is also accidental to be under Sovereignty, and sure not natural, for then Aristocracy and Democracy must be unnatural,2 and so unlawful Governments. 3. If to be congruous to the condition of man be all ⟨p. 95⟩one with natural man (which he must say if he speak sense) to believe in God, to be an excellent Mathematician, to swim in deep waters, being congruous to the nature of man, must be natural. 4. Man by nature is under government Paternal, not Politic properly, but by the free consent of his will.
1Obj. 3. It is accidentall to any to render himselfe a slave, being occasioned by force or extreame indigence, but to submit to Government congruous to the condition of man, and is necessary for his happy being, and naturall, and necessary by the inviolable Ordinance of God and nature. Ans. If the father be a slave, it is naturall and not accidentall, by the Prelates Logick, to be a slave. 2. it is also accidentall to be under Soveraignty, and sure not naturall, for then Aristocracy and Democracy must be unnaturall,2 and so unlawfull Governments. 3. If to be congruous to the condition of man be all ⟨p. 95⟩one with naturall man (which he must say if he speake sense) to beleeve in God, to be an excellent Mathematician, to swim in deepe waters, being congruous to the nature of man, must be naturall. 4. Man by nature is under government Paternall, not Politique properly, but by the free consent of his will.
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