A57975:35
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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8. That the Presbytery of Edinburgh hath a superintending power,1 because they communicate the affairs of ⟨image 5⟩the Church, and writ to the Churches, what they hear Prelates and Hell devise against Christ and his Church.
8. That the Presbytery of Edinbrough hath a superintending power,1 because they communicate the affaires of ⟨image 5⟩the Church, and writ to the Churches, what they hear Prelates and Hell devise against Christ and his Church.
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9. That the King must submit his Sceptre to the Presbytery; the Kings Sceptre is his Royal office, which is not subject to any judicature,1 no more then any lawful ordinance of Christ; but if the King as a man, blaspheme God, murder the innocent, advance Belly-gods, (such as our Prelates for the most part were) above the Lords inheritance, the Ministers of Christ are to say, The King troubleth Israel, and they have the keys to open and shut heaven to, and upon the King, if he can offend.
9. That the King must submit his Scepter to the Presbytery; the Kings Scepter is his Royal office, which is not subject to any judicature,1 no more then any lawfull ordinance of Christ; but if the King as a man, blaspheme God, murther the innocent, advance Belly-gods, (such as our Prelates for the most part were) above the Lords inheritance, the Ministers of Christ are to say, The King troubleth Jsraell, and they have the keyes to open and shut heaven to, and upon the King, if he can offend.