A57975:416
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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2. All these of the people taken collectively having more of God, as being representations, are according to this material dignity excellenter then the King, because many are excellenter then one, and the King according to the Magistratical and Royal Authority he hath, is excellenter then they are, because he partaketh formally of ⟨p. 140⟩Royalty, which they have not formally.
2. All these of the people taken collectively having more of God, as being representations, are according to this materiall dignity excellenter then the King, because many are excellenter then one, and the King according to the Magistraticall and Royall Authority he hath, is excellenter then they are, because he partaketh formally of ⟨p. 140⟩Royalty, which they have not formally.
3. A mean or medium, as it is such, is less then the end, though the thing materially that is a mean,1 may be excellenter; every mean as a mean, under that reduplication hath all its goodness and excellency in relation to the end, yet an Angel that is a mean, and a ministering Spirit, ordained of God for an heir of life eternal, Heb. 1.13. considered materially, is excellenter then a man, Psal. 8.5. Heb. 2.6, 7, 8.
3. A meane or medium, as it is such, is lesse then the end, though the thing materially that is a meane,1