A57975:49
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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122. It is his ignorance, that he saith, A provincial synod is an associate body chosen out of all judicial Presbyteries, for all Pastors, and Doctors, without delegation, by virtue of their place and office, repair to the Provincial Synods, and without any choice at all, consult and voice there.
122. It is his ignorance, that he saith, A provinciall synod is an associate body chosen out of all judiciall Presbyteries, for all Pastors, and Doctors, without delegation, by vertue of their place and office, repaire to the Provinciall Synods, and without any choice at all, consult and voice there.
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123. It is a lye, That some Leading men rule all here; indeed Episcopal men made factions to rent the Synods: and though men abuse their power to factions, this cannot prove that Presbyteries are inconsistent with Monarchy; for then the Prelate, the Monarch of his Diocesan ⟨image 6⟩rout, should be Anti-Monarchial in a higher manner, for he ruleth all at his will.
123. It is a lye, That some Leading men rule all here; indeed Episcopall men made factions to rent the Synods: and though men abuse their power to factions, this cannot prove that Presbyteries are inconsistent with Monarchie; for then the Prelate, the Monarch of his Diocesian ⟨image 6⟩rout, should be Anti-Monarchiall in a higher manner, for he ruleth all at his will.