A57975:419
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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15. But simply and absolutely the people is above, and more excellent then the King, and the King in Dignity inferior to the people; and that upon these Reasons. 1. Because he is the mean ordained for the people,2 as for the end, that he may save them, 2. Sam. 19.9. a public shepherd to feed them, Ps. 78.70, 71, 72, 73. the Captain and Leader of the Lords inheritance, 1 Sam. 10.1. to defend them,3 the Minister of God for their good, Rom. 13.4. 2. The Pilot is less then the whole Passengers, the General less then the whole Army, the Tutor less then all the children, the Physician less then all the living men whose health he careth for; the Master or Teacher less then all the Scholars, because the part is less then the whole: the King is but a part and a member (though I grant a very eminent and Noble Member) of the Kingdom. 43. A Christian people especially is the portion of the Lords inheritance, Deut. 32.9. the sheep of his pasture, his redeemed ones, for whom God gave his blood, Act. 20.28. And the killing of a man is to violate the Image of God, Gen. 9.6. and therefore the death and destruction of a Church, and of thousand thousands of men is a sadder and a more heavy matter then the death of a King, who is but one man. 4. A King as a King, or because a King is not the inheritance of God, nor the chosen and called of God, 5nor the sheep or flock of the Lords pasture, nor the redeemed of Christ, for those excellencies agree not to Kings, because they are Kings; for then all Kings should be endued with those excellencies, and God should an be accepter of persons, if he put those excellencies of Grace upon men for external respects of highness and Kingly power, and worldly glory and splendour; for many living Images and representations of God, as he is holy, or more excellent then a politic representation