A57975:426
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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9. Those who are before the King, and may be a People without ⟨p. 144⟩a King,1 must be of more worth then that which is posterior, and cannot be a King without them. For thus Gods self sufficiency is proved, in that he might be, and eternally was blessed for ever, without his Creature, but his creature cannot subsist in being without him. Now the people were a people many years, before there was any government (save domestic) and is a people where there is no King, but only an Aristocracy, or a Democracy; but the King can be no King without a people. It is vain that some say, the King and Kingdom are relatives, and not one is before another; for its true in the naked relation, so are father and son, Master and servant, Relata simul natura; but sure there is a priority of worth and independency for all that, in the father above the son, and in the master above the servant, and so in the people above the King, take away the people, and Dionysius is but a poor School-master.
9. Those who are before the King, and may be a People without ⟨p. 144⟩a King,1 must be of more worth then that which is posteriour, and cannot be a King without them. For thus Gods selfe sufficiency is proved, in that he might be, and eternally was blessed for ever, without his Creature, but his creature cannot subsist in being without him. Now the people were a people many yeares, before there was any government (save domestick) and is a people where there is no King, but only an Aristocracy, or a Democracy; but the King can be no King without a people. It is vaine that some say, the King and Kingdome are relatives, and not one is before another; for its true in the naked relation, so are father and sonne, Master and servant, Relata simul natura; but sure there is a priority of worth and independency for all that, in the father above the sonne, and in the master above the servant, and so in the people above the King, take away the people, and Dyonisius is but a poore Schoole-master.
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