A57975:532
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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3. To dispute this question,1 Whether such a Prerogative agree to any King, as King; is to dispute whether God hath made all under a Monarch, slaves, by their own consent: which is a vain question. 2. Those who hold such a Prerogative, must say, the King is so absolute and illimited a God on earth, that either by law, or his sole pleasure beside law, he may regularly and rationally move all wheels in Policy; and his uncontrolled will shall be the axletree on which all the wheels are turned.
3. To dispute this question,1 Whether such a Prerogative agree to any King, as King; is to dispute whether God hath made all under a Monarch, slaves, by their own consent: which is a vaine question. 2. Those who hold such a Prerogative, must say, the King is so absolute and illimited a God on earth, that either by law, or his sole pleasure beside law, he may regularly and rationally move all wheeles in Policie; and his uncontrolled will shall be the axeltree on which all the wheeles are turned.
- 1The question touching Prerogative Royal, vain.The question touching Prerogative Royall, vaine.
4. That which is the garland and proper flower of the King of Kings, as he is absolute above his creatures, and not tied to any law,1 without himself, that regulateth his will; That must be given to no mortal man, or King, except we would communicate that which is Gods proper due, to a sinful man; which must be idolatry. But to do Royal acts out of an absolute power above Law and Reason, is such a power as agreeth to God, as is evident in positive laws, and in acts of Gods mere pleasure, where we see no reason without the Almighty, for the one side, rather than for the other; as Gods forbidding the eating of the tree of knowledge, maketh the eating, sin, and contrary to reason;