A57975:39
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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12. Its a lye, that all sins, even all civil business, come under the cognizance of the Church, for only sins, as publicly scandalous, fall under their power, Mat. 18.15, 16, 17. &c. 2 Thess. 3.11. 1 Tim. 5.20. It is a calumny that they search out secret crimes, or that ever they disgraced the innocent, or divided families, where there be flagrant scandals, and pregnant suspicions; of scandalous crimes, they search out these, as the incest of Spotswood, P. P. of Saint Andrews, with his own daughter; the adulteries of Whiteford, P. P. of Brichen, whose Bastard came weeping to the Assembly of Glasgow in the arms of the whore:1 these they searched out, but not with the damnable oath ex officio, that the High Commission put upon innocents, to cause them accuse themselves, against the Law of nature.
12. Its a lye, that all sins, even all civil businesse, come under the cognizance of the Church, for only sins, as publikely scandalous, fall under their power, Mat. 18.15, 16, 17. &c. 2 Thess. 3.11. 1 Tim. 5.20. It is a calumnie that they search out secret crimes, or that ever they disgraced the innocent, or devided families, where there be flagrant scandals, and pregnant suspitions; of scandalous crimes, they search out these, as the incest of Spotswood, P. P. of Saint Andrewes, with his own daughter; the adulteries of Whiteford, P. P. of Brichen, whose Bastard came weeping to the Assembly of Glasgow in the armes of the whore:1 these they searched out, but not with the damnable oath ex officio, that the High Commission put upon innocents, to cause them accuse themselves, against the Law of nature.