A57975:54
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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27. They ought to have no negative vote, to impede the conclusions of Christ in his servants.
28. It is a lye, that the King hath no power to appoint time an• place for the General Assembly; but his power is not privative to destroy the free Courts of Christ, but accumulative to aid and assist them.
28. It is a lye, that the King hath no power to appoint time an• place for the Generall Assembly; but his power is not privative to destroy the free Courts of Christ, but accumulative to ayd and assist them.
29. It is a lye, That our general Assembly may repeal ⟨image 7⟩Laws, command and expect performance of the King, or then excommunicate, subject to them, force & compel King, Judges, and all, to submit to them. They may not force the conscience of the poorest beggar, nor is any Assembly infallible, nor can it lay bounds upon souls of Judges, which they are to obey with blind obedience, their power is ministerial, subordinate to Christs Law; and what civill Laws Parliaments make against Gods word, they may Authoritatively declare them to be unlawful; as though the Emperor, Act. 15. had commanded Fornication and eating of blood, might not the Assembly forbid these in the Synod? I conceive the Prelates, if they had power, would repeal the Act of Parliament made, An. 1641. in Scotland, by his Majesty personally present, and the three Estates concerning the annulling of these Acts of Parliament, and Laws, which established Bishops in Scotland. Eg. Bishops set themselves as independent Monarchs, above Kings and Laws: and what they damn in Presbyteries and Assemblies, that they practise themselves.