A57975:47
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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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.
120. Satan, a lier from the beginning, saith, The Presbyterie was a seminary and nursery of fiends, and contentions, & bloods: because they excommunicated murtherers against King James his will: which is all one as to say, Prophecying is a nurse of bloods, because the Prophets cryed out against King Achab, and the murtherers of innocent Naboth: the men of God must be either on the one side, or the other, or then preach against reciprocation of injuries.
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21. It is false, that Presbyteries usurp both swords: because they censure sins, which the civill Magistrate should censure and punish. Elijah might be said then to mix himself with the civill business of the Kingdom, because he prophesied against Idolaters killing of the Lords Prophets, which crime the civill Magistrate was to punish. But the truth is, the Assembly of Glasgow, 1637. condemned the Prelates, because they being Pastors, would be also Lords of Parliament, of Session, of Secret Counsel, of Exchequer, Judges, Barons, and in their lawless High Commission, would Fine, Imprison, and use the sword.
21. It is false, that Presbyteries usurp both swords: because they censure sins, which the civill Magistrate should censure and punish. Elias might be said then to mix himselfe with the civill businesse of the Kingdom, because he prophecied against Idolators killing of the Lords Prophets, which crime the civill Magistrate was to punish. But the truth is, the Assembly of Glasgow, 1637. condemned the Prelates, because they being Pastors, would be also Lords of Parliament, of Session, of Secret Counsell, of Exchequer, Judges, Barons, and in their lawlesse High Commission, would Fine, Imprison, and use the sword.