A57975:318
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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The King is not a party contracting with the people, as if there were mutual obligations betwixt the King and the people, and a mutual coactive power on either side. 2. That the care of Religion belongeth not to the people, for that hath no warrant in the Word (saith he) 2. We read not that the people was to command and compel the Priests and the King to reform Religion and abolish Idolatry, as it must follow, if the covenant be mutual. 3. Jehoiada, 2 King. 11. obligeth himself and the King, and the people, by a like law to serve God, and here be not two parts, but three; the high Priest, the King, the People, if this example prove any thing. 4. Both King and people shall find the revenging hand of God against them, if they fail in the breach of their Oath; but with this difference, and every one of the two, King and people by the Oath stand obliged to God, the King for himself, and the people for themselves, but with this difference, the King oweth to God proper and due obedience as any of the subjects, and also to govern the people according to Gods true religion, Deut. 17. 2 Chro. 29. and in this the Kings obligation differeth from the peoples obligation, the people, as they would be saved must serve God, and the King for the same cause, 1 Sam. 12. But besides this, the King is obliged to rule and govern the people, and keep them in obedience to God; but the people is not obliged to govern the King, and keep him in obedience to God, for then the people should have as great power of jurisdiction over the King, as the King hath over the people, which is against the Word of God, and the examples of the Kings of Judah; but this cometh not from any promise or covenant that the King hath made with the people, but from a peculiar obligation whereby he is obliged to God as a man, not as a King.
The King is not a party contracting with the people, as if there were mutuall obligations betwixt the King and the people, and a mutuall coactive power on either side. 2. That the care of Religion belongeth not to the people, for that hath no warrant in the Word (saith he) 2. We read not that the people was to command and compell the Priests and the King to reforme Religion and abolish Idolatry, as it must follow, if the covenant be mutuall. 3. Iehoiada,