A57975:429
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 therefore all must be the same way created and moulded of God, except by Scripture Royalists can show us a difference.1 An English Prelate giveth Reasons, why People, who are said to make Kings as efficients, and Authors, cannot unmake them: the one is, because God as chief and sole supreme Moderator maketh Kings, but I say, Christ as the chief Moderator, and head of the Church, doth immediately confer abilities to a man to be a Preacher, and though by industry the man acquire abilities, yet in regard the Church doth not so much as instrumentally confer those abilities, they may be said to come from God immediately, in relation to the Church, who calleth the man to the ministry,2 yea Royalists, as our excommunicated Prelate learned from Spalato, say that God, at the naked presence of the Churches call, doth immediately infuse that from Heaven, by which the man is now in Holy Orders, and a Pastor, whereas he was not so before; and yet Prelates cannot deny, but they can unmake Ministers, and have practised this in their unhallowed Courts: and therefore though God immediately without any action of the people make Kings, this is a weak reason, to prove they cannot unmake them. As for their undeleble character, that Prelates cannot take from a Minister, it is nothing, if the Church may unmake a Minister, though his character go to prison with him:3 we seek no more but to annul the reason. God immediately maketh Kings and Pastors, ergo no power on earth can unmake them; this consequence is as weak as water. 2. The other cause is, because God hath erected no Tribunal on earth higher then the Kings Tribunal, ergo no power on earth can unmake a King; the Antecedent and consequence is both denied, and is a begging of the question: for the Tribunal that made the King is above the King. 2. Though there be no Tribunal formally regal and Kingly above the King, yet is there a Tribunal virtual eminently above him in the case of tyranny, for the States and Princes have a Tribunal above him.
and therefore all must be the same way created and moulded of God, except by Scripture Royalists can shew us a difference.1