A57975:543
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. Absoluteness of an unreasonable Prerogative, doth not deny Counsel and Law also; for none more absolute, de facto, I cannot say de jure then the Kings of Babylon, and Persia: for Daniel saith of one of them, Dan. 5.19. Whom he would, he slew, and whom he would, he kept alive, and whom he would, he set up, and whom he would, he put down; and yet these same Kings did nothing, but by advice of their Princes and Counsellors, yea, so as they could not alter a decree and law, as is clear, Ester 1.14, 15, 16, 17, 21. Yea Darius de facto an absolute Prince, was not able to deliver Daniel, because the Law was passed, that he should be cast into the Lions den, Dan. 6.14, 15, 16.
3. Absolutenesse of an unreasonable Prerogative, doth not deny Counsell and Law also; for none more absolute, de facto, I cannot say de jure then the Kings of Babylon, and Persia: for Daniel saith of one of them, Dan. 5.19. Whom he would, he slew, and whom he would, he kept alive, and whom he would, he set up, and whom he would, he put down; and yet these same Kings did nothing, but by advice of their Princes and Counsellors, yea, so as they could not alter a decree and law, as is clear, Ester 1.14, 15, 16, 17, 21. Yea Darius de facto an absolute Prince, was not able to deliver Daniel, because the Law was passed, that he should be cast into the Lions den, Dan. 6.14, 15, 16.
4. That which the spirit of God condemneth as a point of Tyranny in Nebuchadnezzar, that is no lawful Prerogative Royal: