A57975:457
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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If all the inferior Judges in Israel, 1were but the deputies of the King, and not immediately subordinate to God, as his deputies, then could neither inferior Judges be admonished, nor condemned in Gods word for unjust judgement, because their sentence should be neither righteous, nor unrighteous judgement, but in so far, as the King should approve it, or disapprove it; and indeed, that Royalist Hugo Grotius saith so, That an inferior Judge can do nothing against the will of the supreme Magistrate, if it be so: When ever God commandeth inferior Judges to execute righteous judgement, it must have this sense, Respect not persons in judgement, except the King command you, crush not the poor, oppress not the fatherless, except the King command you. I understand not such policy: Sure I am, The Lords commandments, rebukes, and threats, oblige in conscience the inferior Judge as the superior, as is manifest in these Scriptures, ⟨p. 161⟩Jerem. 5.1. Isai. 1.17, 21. and 5.7. and 10.2. and 59.14. Jere. 22.3. Ezek. 18.8. Amos 5.7. Micah 3.9. Habak. 1.4. Levit. 19.15. Deut. 17.11. and 1.17.