A57975:472
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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9. Arg. Those powers which d•ffer gradually,1 and per magis & minus, by more and less only, differ not in nature and species,2 and constitute not Kings and inferior Judges different univocally. But the power of Kings and inferior Judges are such, therefore Kings and inferior Judges differ not univocally. That the powers are the same in nature, I prove 1. by the specifice acts, and formal object of the power of both, for 1. both are power ordained of God, Rom. 13.1. to resist either, is to resist the ordinance of God, v. 2. both are by Office a terror to evil works, 3v. 3. 3. both are the Ministers of God for good. 2. Though the King send and give a call to the inferior Judge, that doth no more make the inferior Judges powers in nature and species different, then Ministers of the Word called by Ministers of the Word, have Offices different in nature. Timotheus Office to be Preacher of the Word differeth not in specie, from the Office of the Presbytery, which laid hands on him, though their Office by extension, be more then Timothy's Office. 3. The peoples power is put forth in ⟨p. 166⟩those same acts, when they choose one to be their King and supreme Governor, and when they set up an Aristocratical Government, and choose many, or more then one, to be their Governors; for the formal object of one or many Governors is Justice and Religion, as they are to be advanced. 2. The form and manner of their operation is▪ brachio seculari, by a coactive power, and by the sword. 3. The formal acts of King and many Judges in Aristocracy, are these same, the defending of the poor and needy from violence, the conservation of a Community in a peaceable and a godly life, 1 Tim. 2. 2 Job 29.12, 13. Isaiah 1.17. 4.