A57975:507
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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These go for Oracles, at Court. Tacitus. Principi summum rerum arbitrium Dii dederunt, subditis obsequy gloria relicta est. Seneca. Indigna digna habenda sunt, Rex quae facit. Salustius. Impunè quidvis facere, id est, Regem esse. As if to be a King, and to be a God, who cannot err, were all one. But certainly, these Authors are taxing the Licence of Kings, and not commanding their power.
These goe for Oracles, at Court. Tacitus. Principi summum rerum arbitrium Dii dederunt, subditis obsequii gloria relicta est. Seneca. Indigna digna habenda sunt, Rex quae facit. Salustius. Impunè quidvis facere, id est, Regem esse. As if to be a King, and to be a God, who cannot erre, were all one. But certainly, these Authors are taxing the Licence of Kings, and not commanding their power.
But that God hath given no absolute and unlimited power to a King, above the law, is evident by this:
Arg. 1. He who in his first institution, is appointed of God, by office, even when he sitteth on the throne, 1to take heed to read on a written copy of Gods law, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, and keep all the words of this law, &c. He is not of absolute power above law. But, Deut. 17.18, 19. the King, as King, while he sitteth on the Throne, is to do this; Ergo, the Assumption is clear: for this is the law of the King, as King; and not of a man, as a man. But as he sitteth on the Throne, he is to read on the book of the Law: and ver. 20. Because he is King, his heart is not to be lifted up ⟨p. 184⟩