A57975:316
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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Asser. 1. There is an Oath betwixt the King and his people, laying on, by reciprocation of bands, mutual civill obligation upon the King to the people, and the people to the King, 2 Sam. 5.3 So all the Elders of Israel came to the King to Hebron, and King David made a Covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David King over Israel, 1 Chron. 11.3. And David made a covenant with them before the Lord, and they anointed David King over Israel, according to the Word of the Lord by Samuel, 2 Chron. 23.2. And they went about in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the Cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. 3. And all the congregation made a covenant with the King Joash in the house of God, 2 King. 11.17. and Jehoiada made a covenant betwixt the Lord and the King, and the people that they should be the Lords people, between the King also and his people, Eccles. 8.2. I counsel thee to keep the Kings commandment, and that in regard of the Oath of God; then it is evident there was a covenant betwixt the King and the people. 2. That was not a covenant that did tie the King to God only, and not to the people, 1. because the covenant betwixt the King and the people is clearly differenced from the Kings covenant with the Lord, 2 King. 11.17. 2. there were no necessity that this covenant should be made publicly before the people, if the King did not in the covenant tie and oblige himself to the people; nor needed it be made solemnly before the Lord is the House of God. 3. It is expressly a covenant, that was between Joash the King and his people, and David made a ⟨p. 97⟩covenant at his Coronation with the Princes and Elders of Israel; therefore the people give the Crown to David Covenant-wise, and upon condition that he should perform such and such duties to them; and this is clear by all Covenants in the Word of God, even the Covenant between God and man is so mutual; I will be your God, and ye shall be my people. The covenant is so mutual, that if the people break the covenant, God is loosed from his part of the covenant,