A57975:471
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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Master Symmon•, The King is by the Grace of God, 1the inferior Judge is Judge by the grace of the King, even as the man is the image of God, and the woman the mans image. Ans. This distinction is neither true in Law, nor conscience; not in Law, for it distinguisheth not betwixt Ministros regis, & ministros regni. The servants of the King are his domestics, the Judges are Ministri regni, non regis; the Ministers and Judges of the Kingdom, not of the King. The King doth not show grace, as he is a man, in making such a man a Judge, but Justice as a King, by a Royal Power received from the people, and by an Act of Justice, he makes Judges of deserving men, he should neither for favour, nor bribes make any Judge in the Land.2 2. It is the grace of God that men are to be advanced from a private condition to be inferior Judges, as Royal Dignity is a free gift of God, 1 Sam. 2.7. The Lord bringeth low, and lifteth up, Ps. 757. God putteth down one, and seteth up another. Court flatterers take from God, and give to Kings; but to be a Judge inferior, is no less an immediate favour of God, then to be King; though the one be a greater favour then the other. Magis honos, and Major honos are to be considered.
Master Symmon•, The King is by the Grace of God, 1the inferiour Iudge is Iudge by the grace of the King, even as the man is the image of God, and the woman the mans image. Ans. This distinction is neither true in Law, nor conscience; not in Law, for it distinguisheth not betwixt Ministros regis, & ministros regni. The servants of the King are his domesticks, the Iudges are Ministri regni, non regis; the Ministers and Iudges of the Kingdome, not of the King. The King doth not show grace, as he is a man, in making such a man a Iudge, but Iustice as a King, by a Royall Power received from the people, and by an Act of Iustice, he makes Iudges of deserving men, he should neither for favour, nor bribes make any Iudge in the Land.2