A57975:490
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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would not make a Covenant with Jacobs Sons, without the consent of the men of the City, and Ephron the Hittite would not sell Abraham a burial place in his Land without the consent of the children of Heth, Gen. 23.10. Then must the estates have a power of judging with the King or Prince in matters of Religion, Justice, and Government, which concern the whole Kingdom; but the former is true by the Records of Scripture, ergo, so is the latter.
would not make a Covenant with Iacobs Sons, without the consent of the men of the City, and Ephron the Hittite would not sell Abraham a buriall place in his Land without the consent of the children of Heth, Gen. 23.10. Then must the estates have a power of judging with the King or Prince in matters of Religion, Iustice, and Government, which concerne the whole Kingdome; but the former is true by the Records of Scripture, ergo, so is the latter.
8. The men of Ephraim complain that Jephthah had gone to war against the children of Ammon without them,1 and hence rose war betwixt the men of Ephraim, and the men of Gilead, Jud. 12.1, 2, 3. and the men of Israel fiercely contend with the men of Judah, because they brought King David home again without them, pleading that they were therein despised, 2 Sam. 19.41, 42, 43. which evinceth that the whole States have hand in matters of public government, that concern all the Kingdom; and when there is no King, Judg. 20. The chief of the people, and of all the Tribes go out in battle, against the children of Benjamin.
8. The men of Ephraim complaine that Iephtah had gone to warre against the children of Ammon without them,