A57975:460
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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He citeth that of Augustine: If the Consul command one thing, 1and the Emperor another thing, you contemn not the power, but you choose to obey the highest: Peter saith, He will have us one way to be subject to the King, as to the supreme, sine ulla exception, without any exception, but to these who are sent by the King, as having their power from the King.
He citeth that of Augustine: If the Consul command one thing, 1and the Emperour another thing, you contemn not the power, but you choose to obey the highest: Peter saith, He will have us one way to be subject to the King, as to the supreme, sine ulla exceptione, without any exception, but to these who are sent by the King, as having their power from the King.
- 1Grot. 16.
Answ. When the Consul commandeth a thing lawful, and the King that same thing lawful, or a thing not unlawful, we are to obey the King, rather then the Consul: so I expone Augustine. 2. We are not to obey the King and the Consul the same way,1 that is with the same degree of reverence and submission; for we owe more submission of spirit to the King, then to the Consul; but magis & minus non variant speciem, more or less varieth not the natures of things: but if the meaning be that we are not to obey the inferior Judge commanding things lawful, if the King command the contrary, this is utterly denied: But saith Grotius, The inferior Judge is but the Deputy of the King, and hath all his power from him; ⟨p. 162⟩therefore we are to obey him for the King. Answ. The inferior Judge may be called the Deputy of the King, (where it is the Kings place to make Judges) because he hath his external call from the King, and is Judge, in foro Soli, in the name and authority of the King;