A57975:484
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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when Tyrannous Athalia reigneth, they convene and make Joash King, and that without any King. And Josh. 22. there is a Parliament convened, and, for any thing we can read, without Joshua, to take cognisance of a new Altar. It had been good that the Parliaments both of Scotland, and of England, had convened, though the King had not indicted and summoned a Parliament; without the King, to take order with the wicked Clergy, who had made many idolatrous Altars: And the P. Prelate should have brought an argument to prove it unlawful, ju foro Dei, to set up the Tables and Conventions in our Kingdom, when the Prelates were bringing in the grossest idolatry into the Church, a service for adoring of Altars, of Bread, the work of the hand of the Bake•;1 a God more corruptible then any god of silver and gold.
when Tyrannous Athalia reigneth, they conveene and make Ioash King, and that without any King. And Iosh. 22. there is a Parliament conveened, and, for any thing we can read, without Ioshua, to take cognisance of a new Altar. It had been good that the Parliaments both of Scotland, and of England, had conveened, though the King had not indicted and summoned a Parliament; without the King, to take order with the wicked Clergie, who had made many idolatrous Altars: And the P. Prelate should have brought an argument to prove it unlawfull, iu foro Dei, to set up the Tables and Conventions in our Kingdome, when the Prelates were bringing in the grossest idolatrie into the Church, a service for adoring of Altars, of Bread, the worke of the hand of the Bake•;1 a God more corruptible then any god of silver and gold.
- 1Tables in Scotland lawful.Tables in Scotland lawfull.