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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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2. When the people appointeth any to be their King, the voice of Nature expoundeth their deed, though there be no vocal or written covenant; For that fact of making a King, is a moral lawful act warranted by the word of God, Deut. 17.15, 16. Rom. 13.1.2. and the law of Nature: and therefore they having made such a man their King, they have given him power to be their father, feeder, healer, protector; and so must only have made him King conditionally, so he be a father, a feeder, and tutor. Now if this deed of making a King, must be exponed to be an investing with an absolute, and not a conditional power; this fact shall be contrary to Scripture, and to the law of Nature: for if they have given him Royal power absolutely, and without any condition,1 they must have given to him power to be a father, protector, tutor, and to be a tyrant, a murderer, a bloody lion to waste and destroy the people of God.
2. When the people appointeth any to be their King, the voyce of Nature exponeth their deed, though there be no vocall or written covenant; For that fact of making a King, is a morall lawfull act warranted by the word of God, Deut. 17.15, 16. Rom. 13.1.2. and the law of Nature: and therefore they having made such a man their King, they have given him power to be their father, feeder, healer, protector; and so must only have made him King conditionally, so he be a father, a feeder, and tutor. Now if this deed of making a King, must be exponed to be an investing with an absolute, and not a conditionall power; this fact shall be contrary to Scripture, and to the law of Nature: for if they have given him Royall power absolutely, and without any condition,1 they must have given to him power to be a father, protector, tutor, and to be a tyrant, a murtherer, a bloody lyon to waste and destroy the people of God.