A57975:520
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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Argum. 5. A power contrary to justice. 2. To peace and the good of the people. 3. That looketh to no law as a rule,1 and so is unreasonable, and forbidden by the Law of God,2 and the Civill Law, L. 15. filius de condit. Instit. cannot be a lawful power, and cannot constitute a lawful Judge; but an absolute and unlimited power is such: How can the Judge be the Minister of God for good to the people, Rom. 13.4? If he have such a power as a King given him of God to destroy and waste the people?
Argum. 5. A power contrary to justice. 2. To peace and the good of the people. 3. That looketh to no law as a rule,1 and so is unreasonable, and forbidden by the Law of God,2 and the Civill Law, L. 15. filius de condit. Instit. cannot be a lawfull power, and cannot constitute a lawfull Iudge; but an absolute and unlimited power is such: How can the Iudge be the Minister of God for good to the people, Rom. 13.4? If he have such a power as a King given him of God to destroy and waste the people?
- 1Argum. 5.
- 2Against absolute Princes. An absolute Prince against justice, peace, reason, law, &c.
Argum. 6. An absolute power is contrary to nature,1 and so unlawful;