A57975:340
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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6. If that was a lawful covenant made by Asa, and the States of Judah, 2 Chron. 15.13.1 That whosoever would not seek the Lord God of their fathers, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman: this obligeth the King for ought I see, and the Princes, and the people, but it was a lawful covenant, ergo the King is under a covenant to the Princes and Judges, as they are to him; it is replied, If a Master of a School should make a law, whoever shall go out at the School doors without liberty obtained of the Master, shall be whipped, 2it will not oblige the School-master that he shall be whipped, if he go out at the School doors without liberty; so neither doth this Law oblige the King the supreme Law-giver. Ans. Suppose that the Scholars have no less hand and authority magisterial in making the law, then the School-master, as the Princes of Judah had a collateral power with King Asa about that law; it would follow, that the School-master is under the same law. 2. Suppose going out at School doors were that way a moral neglect of studying in the Master, as it is in the Scholars, as the not seeking of God is as heinous a sin in King Asa, and no less deserving death then it is in the people; then should the Law oblige Schoolmaster and Scholar both without exception. 3. The Schoolmaster i• clearly above all laws of discipline which he imposeth on his Scholars, but none can say that King Asa was clearly above that law of seeking of the Lord God of his fathers. Diodorus Siculus, l. 17. saith, the Kings of Persia were under an oath, and that they might not change the Laws; and so were the Kings of Egypt and Ethiopia. The Kings of Sparta, which Aristotle calleth just Kings, renew their oath every month. Romulus so covenanted with the Senate and People. Carolus V. Austriacus, sweareth he shall not change the Laws, without the consent of the Electors, nor make new laws, nor dispose or impledge any thing that belongeth to the Empire. So read ⟨p. 92⟩[…] ⟨p. 93⟩[…] ⟨p. 110⟩