A57975:319
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This is the mystery of the business, but I oppose this in these Assertions.1
This is the mystery of the businesse, but I oppose this in these Assertions.1
- 1The people & Princes in their place are obliged to maintain Religion and Justice, no less then the King.The people & Princes in their place are obliged to maintain Religion and Iustice, no lesse then the King.
1. Assert. As the King is obliged to God for the maintenance of true Religion, so are the people and Princes no less in their place obliged to maintain true Religion, for 1. the people are rebuked because they burnt Incense in all high places, 2 King. 17.11. ⟨p. 99⟩2 Chron. 33.17. Hos. 4.13. And the reason why the high places are not taken away, 2 Chro. 20.33. is given, for as yet the people had not prepared their heart unto the God of their fathers; but you will reply, elicit acts of maintenance of true Religion are commanded to the people, and that the places prove; but the question is De actibus imperatis, of commanded acts of Religion, sure none but the Magistrate is to command others to worship God according to his Word. I answer, in ordinary only, Magistrates (not the King only) but all the Princes of the Land, and Judges are to maintain Religion by their commandments,