A57975:470
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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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, Deut. 1.17. 2. Chro. 19.6. Let the Prelate see to the stumbling conclusion, for so he feareth it proves to his bad cause. 2. He saith the places, Deut. 1.17. 2 Chro. 19.6. prove that the King judgeth in the Room of God, because their Deputies judge in the place of God. The Prelate may know, we would deny this stumbling and ••me consequence; for 1. Moses and Jehoshaphat are not speaking to themselves, but to other inferior Judges, who doth publicly exhort them. Moses and Jehoshaphat are persuading the regulation of the personal actions of other men, who might pervert Judgement. 2. The Prelate is much upon his Law, after he had forsworn the Gospel, and Religion of the Church,1 where he was baptized. What the King doth by another, that he doth by himself; but were Moses and Jehoshaphat feared that they should pervert Judgement in the unjust Sentence pronounced by under Judges, of which Sentence they could not know any thing? And do inferior Judges so judge in the name, authority, and power of the King, as not in the Name, Authority and Power of the Lord of Lords, and King of Kings? or is the Judgement the Kings? no, the Spirit of God saith no such matter, the Judgement executed by those inferior Judges, is the Lords, not a mortal Kings, ergo a mortal King may not hinder them to execute Judgement. Obj. He cannot suggest an unjust Sentence, and command an inferior Judge to give out a sentence absolvatory on cut-throats, but he may hinder the execution of any sentence against Irish cut-throats. Ans. It is all one to hinder the execution of a just sentence, and to suggest or command the inferior Judge to pronounce an unjust one, for inferior Judges by conscience of their Office, are both to judge righteously, and by force and power of the sword given to them of God, Rom. 23.2, 3, 4. to execute the sentence, and so God