A57975:391
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. 3. Israel made David King, that is, Israel designed Davids person to be King, and Israel consented to Gods act of making David King, but they did not make David King.
Ans. I say not that Israel made the Royal dignity of Kings:1 God, Deut. 17. instituted that himself: bu• the Royalist must give us an act of God going before an act of the peoples making David King at Hebron, by which David of no King is made formally a King: and then another act of the People, approving only and consenting to that act of God, whereby David is made formally of no King to be a King. This Royalists shall never instruct, for there be only two acts of God here; 1. Gods act of anointing David by the hand of Samuel; and 2. Gods act of making David King at Hebron: and a third they shall never give. But the former is not that by which David was essentially and formally changed from the state ⟨p. 128⟩of a private subject, and no King, into the state of a public Judge and supreme Lord and King, for (as I have proved) after this act of anointing of David King, he was designed only and set apart to be King in the Lords fit time; and after this anointing, he was no more formally a King then Doeg or Nabal were Kings, but a subject who called Saul the Lords anointed and King, and obeyed Saul as another subject doth his King: but it is certain God by no other act made David King at Hebron, then by Israels act of free electing him to be King and leader of the Lords people, as God by no other act sendeth down rain on the earth, but by Gods melting the clouds, and causing rain to fall on the earth: and therefore to say Israel made David King at Hebron, that is, Israel approved only and consented to a prior act of Gods making David King, is all one as to say Saul prophesied, that is, Saul consented to a prior act of the Spirit of God who prophesied: and Peter preached,