A57975:469
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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Hear our Prelate: How is it imaginable that Kings can be said to Judge in Gods place, and not receive the power from God? but Kings Judge in Gods place, Deut. 1.17. 2 Chro. 19.6. Let no man stumble, ⟨p. 164⟩(this is his Prolepsis) at this, that Moses in the one place, and Jehoshaphat in the other speak to subordinate Judges under them, this weakeneth no ways our Argument, for it is a ruled case in Law; Quod quis facit per alium, facit per se; all Judgements of inferior Judges are in the name, authority, and by the power of the supreme, and are but communicatively, and derivatively from the Sovereign power.
Heare our Prelate: How is it imaginable that Kings can be said to Iudge in Gods place, and not receive the power from God? but Kings Iudge in Gods place, Deut. 1.17. 2 Chro. 19.6. Let no man stumble, ⟨p. 164⟩(this is his Prolepsis) at this, that Moses in the one place, and Iehosaphat in the other speake to subordinate Iudges under them, this weakeneth no waies our Argument, for it is a ruled case in Law; Quod quis facit per alium, facit per se; all Iudgements of inferiour Iudges are in the name, authority, and by the power of the supreme, and are but communicatively, and derivatively from the Soveraigne power.
Ans. How is it possible that inferior Judges, Deut. 1.17. 2. Chron. 19.6. can be said to judge in Gods place, and not receive the power from God immediately, without any consent or covenant of men? So the Prelate. But inferior Judges judge in the Gods place, as both the P. Prelate and Scripture teach,