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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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and it is unconceivable, to say that people can put restraint upon a power immediately coming from God, 1if Christ immediately infuse an Apostolic spirit in Paul, mortal men cannot take from him any degrees of that infused spirit; if Christ infuse a spirit of nine degrees, the Church cannot limit it to six degrees only; but Royalists consent that the people may choose a King, upon such conditions to reign, as he hath Royal power of ten degrees, whereas his Ancestor had by birth a power of fourteen degrees. 3. It is not intelligible that the Holy Ghost should give Commandment to the people to make such a man King, 2Deut. 17.15, 16. and forbid them to make such a man King, if the people had no active influence in making a King at all, but God solely and immediately from Heaven did infuse Royalty in the King without any action of the people, save a naked consent only, and that after God had made the King, they should approve only with an after-act of naked approbation. 4. If the people by other Governors,3 as by heads of families, and other choice men, govern themselves, and produce these same formal effects of Peace, Justice, Religion, on themselves, which the King doth produce, then is there a power of the same kind, and as excellent as the Royal power in the people, and no reason, but this power should be holden to come immediately from God, as the Royal Power, for it is every way of the same nature and kind, and as I shall prove, Kings and Judges differ not in nature and species, but it is experienced that people do, by Aristocratical guides, govern themselves, &c. so then, if God immediately infuse Royalty, when the people chooseth a King, without any action of the people, then must God immediately infuse a beam of governing on a Provost and a Bailiff, when the people choose such, and that ⟨p. 146⟩without any action of the people, because all Powers are, in abstracto, from God, Rom. 13.2. and God as immediately maketh inferior Judges, as superior,