A57975:388
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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Object. 2. God maketh a King only, and the Kingly power is in him only, not in the people. Ans. The Royal power is only from God, immediately, Immediatione simplicis constitutionis, & solum a Deo solitudine primae causae, by the immediation of simple constitution, none but God appointed there should be Kings; but 2. Royal power is not in God, nor only from God; immediatione applicationis regia dignitatis ad personam, nec a Deo solum, solitudine causae applicantis dignitatem, huic, non illi, in respect of the applying of Royal dignity to this person, not to this.
Object. 2. God maketh a King only, and the Kingly power is in him only, not in the people. Ans. The Royall power is only from God, immediatly, Immediatione simplicis constitutionis, & solum a Deo solitudine primae causae, by the immediation of simple constitution, none but God appointed there should be Kings; but 2. Royall power is not in God, nor only from God; immediatione applicationis regia dignitatis ad personam, nec a Deo solum, solitudine causae applicantis dignitatem, huic, non illi, in respect of the applying of Royall dignity to this person, not to this.
Object. 3. Though Royal power were given to the people, it is not given to the people, as if it were the Royal power of the people, and not the Royal power of God, neither is it any other ways bestowed on the people but as on a beam, a channel, an instrument, by which it is derived ⟨p. 127⟩to others, and so the King is not the minister or servant of the people.
Object. 3. Though Royall power were given to the people, it is not given to the people, as if it were the Royal power of the people, and not the Royall power of God, neither is it any other waies bestowed on the people but as on a beame, a channell, an instrument, by which it is derived ⟨p. 127⟩to others, and so the King is not the minister or servant of the people.