A57975:328
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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if then the people make a King as a King conditionally for their safety, and not for their destruction (for as a King he saveth, as a man he destroyeth, and not as a King and Father) and if God by the peoples free election make a King, God maketh him a King conditionally, and so by covenant; and therefore when God promiseth 2 Sam. 7.12. 1 Chron. 28.7, 8, 9. to Davids seed, and to Solomon a Throne, he promiseth not a Throne to them immediately, as he raised up Prophets and Apostles, without any mediate action and consent of the people, but he promiseth a Throne to them by the mediate consent, election, and covenant of the people; which condition and covenant he expresseth in the very words of the people,1 covenant with the King, so they walk as Kings in the Law of the Lord, and take heed to Gods Commandments and Statutes to do them ▪ Obj. But then Solomon falling in love with many outlandish women, and so not walking according to Gods Law, loseth all royal dignity and Kingly power, and the people is not to acknowledge him as King, since the Kingly power was conferred upon him, rather then Adonijah, upon such a condition, which condition not being performed by him, it is presumed that neither God, nor the people under God, as Gods instruments in making King, conferred any royal power on him. Ans. It doth not follow, that Solomon falling in love with strange women doth lose Royal dignity, either in the Court of Heaven, or before men; because the conditions of the covenant upon which God by the people made him King must be exponed by the Law, Deut. 17. now that cannot bear, that any one act contrary to the Royal Office, yea that any one or two acts of Tyranny doth denude a man of the Royal dignity that God and the people gave him, for so David committing two acts of tyranny, one of taking his own faithful Subjects ⟨p. 104⟩wife from him, and another in killing himself, should denude himself of all the Kingly power that he had, and that therefore the people after his Adultery and Murder were not to reknowledge David as their King, which is most absurd;