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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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3 Object. A man may render himself totally under the power of a Master, without any conditions: and why may not the body of a people do the like? even to have peace and safety, surrender themselves ⟨p. 119⟩fully to the power of a King? A lord of great Manors may admit no man to live in his Lands, but upon a condition of a full surrender of him, and his posterity to that lord. 1Tacitus showeth us it was so anciently amongst the Germans, and the Campanians surrendered themselves fully to the Romans.
3 Object. A man may render himselfe totally under the power of a Master, without any conditions: and why may not the body of a people doe the like? even to have peace and safety, surrender themselves ⟨p. 119⟩fully to the power of a King? A lord of great Mannours may admit no man to live in his Lands, but upon a condition of a full surrender of him, and his posterity to that lord. 1Tacitus sheweth us it was so anciently amongst the Germans, and the Campanians surrendered themselves fully to the Romans.
- 1A compelled surrender of liberty tieth not.A compelled surrender of liberty tyeth not.
Answ. What compelled people may do to redeem their lives with loss of liberty, is nothing to the point; such a violent Conqueror who will be a father and a husband to a people, against their will, is not their lawful King; and that they may sell the liberty of their posterity, not yet born, is utterly denied as unlawful; yea, a violentated father to me is a father, and not a father, and the posterity may vindicate their own liberty given away unjustly, before they were born: Qua omne regnum vi partum potest vi dissolvi.