A57975:46
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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19. The leading men, that covered the sins of the dying man and so loosed his soul, were Episcopal men: and though some of them were presbyterians, the faults of men cannot prejudice the truth of God;1 but the Prelates always cry out against the rigour of Presbyteries, in censuring ⟨image 6⟩scandals, because they themselves do ill, they hate the light; now here the Prelate condemneth them of remissness in Discipline.
19. The leading men, that covered the sins of the dying man and so losed his soul, were Episcopall men: and though some of them were presbyterians, the faults of men cannot prejudice the truth of God;1 but the Prelates alwayes cry out against the rigor of Presbyteries, in censuring ⟨image 6⟩scandals, because they themselves do ill, they hate the light; now here the Prelate condemneth them of remissenesse in Discipline.
- 1Pa. 17, 18.
120. Satan, a liar from the beginning, saith, The Presbytery was a seminary and nursery of fiends, and contentions, & bloods: because they excommunicated murderers against King James his will: which is all one as to say, Prophesying is a nurse of bloods, because the Prophets cried out against King Ahab, and the murderers of innocent Naboth: the men of God must be either on the one side, or the other, or then preach against reciprocation of injuries.