A57975:362
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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The Prelate objecteth out of Spalato, Arnisaeus, and Hug. Grotius, 1(for in his book there is not one line which is his own, except his railings) 1. All government and superiority in Rulers is not primly and only for the Subjects good: for some are by God and Nature appointed for the mutual and inseparable good of the superior and inferior, as in the government of husband and wife, or father and son; and in herili dominio, in the government of a Lord and his servant, the good and benefit of the servant is but secondary and consecutively intended, it is not the principal end, but the external and adventitious, as the gain that cometh to a Physician, is not the proper and internal end of his art, but followeth only from his practice of Medicine.
The Prelate objecteth out of Spalato, Arnisaeus, and Hug. Grotius, 1(for in his booke there is not one line which is his own, except his raylings) 1. All government and superioritie in Rulers is not primely and only for the Subjects good: for some are by God and Nature appointed for the mutuall and inseperable good of the superiour and inferiour, as in the government of husband and wife, or father and sonne; and in herili dominio, in the government of a Lord and his servant, the good and benefit of the servant is but secondary and consecutively intended, it is not the principall end, but the externall and adventitious, as the gaine that commeth to a Physitian, is not the proper and internall end of his art, but followeth only from his practice of Medicine.
- 1Prelate. Sacr. sanct. maj. c. 16· p. 15. Hugo Grotius hath the same de jur. bel. & pacis, l. 1. c. 3.
Ans. The Prelates logic tendeth to this; some government tendeth to the mutual good of the superior and inferior, but Royal Government is some government, ergo nothing followeth from a major proposition, Ex particulari affirmante, in prima figura. Or of two particular propositions. 2. If it be thus formed, every marital government, and every government of the Lord and servant is for the mutual good of the superior and inferior: But Royal Government is such, ergo &c. the assumption is false, and cannot be proved, as I shall anon clear.